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Anna Weizmann

Anna Weizmann was a Russian-Israeli chemist who worked at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot.

1886 to 1963Chemistry research at the Weizmann InstituteFirst woman professor at the instituteSister of Chaim Weizmann

Died: 17 February 1963, Rehovot
Occupation: chemist
Education: University of Zurich

Anna Weizmann was born in 1886 in Motal

Anna Weizmann was born in 1886 in Motal, in the Russian Empire, to Ezer Weizmann and Rachel-Leah Chemerinskiy. Her father was a timber merchant. She was the sister of Chaim Weizmann and Moshe Weizmann, and the aunt of Israeli president Ezer Weizman.

She finished high school in Kiev. She studied chemistry in Zürich from 1905 to 1912.

From 1913 to 1914 she worked in a university chemistry laboratory in Manchester and lived with her brother Chaim. After World War I she worked at the Biochemical Institute in Moscow. She moved to the Land of Israel and began working at the Ziv Institute in Rehovot, later named the Weizmann Institute.

Her research focused on organic synthesis and biochemistry. During World War II she worked on anti-malaria compounds and synthetic rubber. She also studied local plants as a source of drugs.

When she retired in 1959 she was named honorary professor, the first woman named professor at the institute. In her last years she lived in Rehovot with her sister Masha. She died on February 17, 1963.