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ICS Symposium Honoring Wolf Prize Laureates Makoto Fujita and Omar M Conference Report 1 DOI: 10.1002/ijch.201800136 2 3 4 Metal-Directed Assembly and Metal-Organic Frameworks: 5 ICS Symposium Honoring Wolf Prize Laureates Makoto 6 7 Fujita and Omar M. Yaghi, May 30, 2018, Technion – Israel 8 9 Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel 10 11 [a] 12 Ehud Keinan* 13 14 The Annual Wolf Prize Symposia of the ICS have become a speakers, chairpersons, Rabbi Prof. Daniel Hershkowitz, 15 significant part of the scientific landscape of the State of distinguished guests. For the past three decades the ICS has 16 Israel. These highly attended events occur annually in late upheld the tradition of holding organizing the Wolf Symposia 17 May or early June during the Wolf Prize week, usually one in Israel. Every one of these has been a very exciting event for 18 day before the Wolf Prize award ceremony in the Knesset. me and I am sure that it is so for all of you. 19 Every symposium features a busy day of excellent lectures There are three messages I wish to convey this morning. 20 presented by the Wolf Prize Laureates and other esteemed My first comment refers to the Wolf Prize itself. When 21 speakers who are active in the field of the prize and/or related Ricardo Wolf initiated this Prize, probably thinking of a 22 to the Laureates’ research groups. The symposia take place in “Jewish Nobel Prize”, as it is nicknamed today, I doubt that he 23 one of the university campuses. For example, the 2012 imagined how far this prize could go. Most people agree that 24 symposium, “Celebrating Nanochemistry”, held in Tel Aviv this is the second most important prize after the Nobel, 25 University, was dedicated to A. Paul Alivisatos and Charles particularly in chemistry. Certainly, many agree about its 26 M. Lieber. The 2013 symposium entitled “New Biomaterials predicted Nobel-predicting power, for which we have a 27 for Therapy” was held in Ben-Gurion University in honor of convincing track record. As a member of the Wolf council, I 28 Robert Langer. The 2014 symposium honoring Chi-Huey can tell you that we consider as strong candidates those who 29 Wong, entitled “Chemical Biology and Biomedical Science” have a good chance to proceed later on to Stockholm. And 30 was organized at the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry of the many people know that the road to Stockholm goes through 31 Technion. In 2015 no Wolf Prize in chemistry was awarded. Jerusalem. 32 The Technion hosted also the 2016 Wolf Prize symposium It is appropriate to say a few words about Ricardo Wolf, an 33 entitled “Chemical Synthesis and Drug Discovery”[1] in honor inventor, diplomat, and philanthropist. He was born in 34 of the Prize Laureates K. C. Nicolaou and Stuart L. Schreiber. Hanover in 1887, and emigrated from Germany to Cuba 35 In 2017 the symposium, entitled “Organometallics and CÀH before the First World War. In 1924, he married the tennis 36 Activation”,[2] honoring Wolf Prize Laureate Robert G. Berg- champion Francisca Subirana. For many years, Ricardo Wolf 37 man was held in the Technion as well. and his brother Sigfried Wolf worked to develop a process for 38 The 2018 event (Figure 1), organized by the ICS President recovering iron from smelting process residue. Their invention 39 Ehud Keinan and Project Manager Liraz Maanit, was was utilized in steel factories worldwide, bringing him 40 generously sponsored by the Technion, the Schulich Faculty of considerable wealth. Wolf lent both moral and financial 41 Chemistry, the Berkeley Global Science Institute, Rigaku support to Fidel Castro from the onset of the Cuban revolution. 42 Corporation of Japan, Tokyo Chemical Industry (TCI) Co., Beholden to Ricardo Wolf for his unswerving support, and 43 and Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) Corporation. cognizant of his personality and natural gifts as a diplomat, 44 the Cuban leader offered him the position of Minister of 45 Finance and, after Wolf declined, responded to Wolf’s request 46 Opening Session and appointed him Cuban Ambassador to Israel in 1961. Wolf 47 held this position until 1973, the year Cuba severed diplomatic 48 Prof. Ehud Keinan opened the symposium and greeted the ties with Israel. Upon relinquishing his diplomatic post, Wolf 49 audience. “Welcome everybody, particularly the Wolf Prize decided to remain in Israel, until his death in 1981. In 1975, 50 laureates Fujuta and Yaghi, Sir Fraser Stoddart, all other Ricardo Wolf established the Wolf Foundation, and the Wolf 51 Prizes have been awarded since 1978 in six fields: Agriculture, 52 Chemistry, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics. The Arts prize [a] E. Keinan 53 rotates annually between architecture, music, painting and The Schulich Faculty of Chemistry 54 Technion – Israel Institute of Technology sculpture. Each prize consists of a diploma and US$100,000. 55 Haifa 32000 (Israel) The second comment I wish to make is that science is 56 E-mail: [email protected] highly international and many scientists emigrate to other Isr. J. Chem. 2018, 58, 1–15 © 2018 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim 1 These are not the final page numbers! ÞÞ Conference Report 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 Figure 1. Announcement poster of the 2018 Wolf Prize Symposium autographed by all speakers. 55 56 Isr. J. Chem. 2018, 58, 1–15 © 2018 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim www.ijc.wiley-vch.de 2 These are not the final page numbers! ÞÞ Conference Report 1 countries, developing their careers far away from their home- grateful to the people who assisted me, particularly the ICS 2 land. It is not surprising that the country of affiliation of most Project Manager Liraz Maanit, Reut Yinon Berman and 3 of the 13 lecturers of this symposium is different from their Michal Bornstein, both from the Wolf Foundation, as well as 4 country of birth. These scientists represent 6 countries (Japan, people from the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, among them 5 USA, Israel, China, Korea and Sweden) but they were born in Meital Barron and Zion Hai. 6 11 different countries (Figure 2). The USA as well as Israel I would like to invite my colleague and friend, Rabbi Prof. 7 enjoy immigration of great scientists although we Israel also Daniel Hershkowitz, who was Dean of Mathematics at the 8 suffer from the brain drain phenomenon. This continuous Technion at the time I served as Dean of Chemistry, so we 9 exchange of scientists is very good for science and very good know one another for a long time. Further on in his career 10 for the country. Prof. Hershkowitz became Minister of Science and Technol- 11 The third comment is about relates to the topics high- ogy, served as President of Bar Ilan University and is currently 12 lighted by the 2018 Wolf Prize in Chemistry. I tend to identify Chairman of the National Council of Research and Develop- 13 two fundamental cultures of scientific disciplines. In the first ment.” 14 type, including astronomy, zoology and most fields of biology, Prof. Daniel Hershkowitz greeted the prize winners, 15 the scientists are primarily discoverers. Practitioners of the speakers and audience, “I am very happy to be here with you 16 second culture behave like architects – creating new objects at this happy occasion. Ehud has mentioned that I serve as 17 and new systems. I consider most chemists as architects, Chairman of the National Council of R&D. This Council was 18 certainly Fujita and Yaghi, as well as Stoddart and all other appointed by the State President and its role is to advise the 19 speakers of this symposium who are all architects at the government on the policy of research and development in the 20 molecular scale. And it is very interesting to look at this issue future. In other words, we are asked to predict the future of 21 from the perspective of time. Architecture is a very old science, which is essentially impossible. I remember that when 22 endeavor, probably older than 10,000 years. The visual arts are I started my career in politics, we used to say that in the 23 even older. Considering the fact that molecular sculpture and Middle East, it is very difficult to predict anything, especially 24 synthetic chemistry are less than 200 years old, we are the future. It is very difficult to say where science is going, not 25 witnessing just the beginning of chemical architecture and only in the next generation, but even in the next five years or 26 chemical arts. so. Nevertheless, some predictions about scientific develop- 27 Finally, since neither the Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry ments were successful, and one good example is the area of 28 nor the President of the Technion could attend this sympo- nanotechnology. This area started developing in Israel about 29 sium, I would like to say a few words about the Schulich 20 years ago and was strongly promoted over the past 10 years 30 Faculty of Chemistry. It was established by David Ginsburg in by the national effort on nanotechnology with massive govern- 31 1954 in the old building in downtown Haifa and moved to this ment investments. That initiative has become a success story 32 campus 10 years later. Currently the faculty consists of 27 in terms of academic research in all universities and many 33 research groups, 240 undergraduate students in three tracks, commercial applications that resulted from that activity.
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