Inauguration of Nobel Energy Science Park, Madatech, Haifa, Oct 27

American company Noble Energy, which owns rights to much of the natural gas found in Israeli territorial waters, recently donated $4 million to construct a new science park at the Madatech science museum in Haifa. The 4,000 square-meter park has been named the Nobel Energy Science Park. It features models based on physical and scientific principals, of drawings of the great scientists such as Archimedes, Leonardo da Vinci, and Isaac Newton. Photo shows Charles Swartz, Deputy ESTH officer climbing on board a child-size helicopter based on  the drawings and science of Leonardo da Vinci.

One of the guest speakers was recent Nobel prizewinner for chemistry Prof. Dan Shechtman. He won the prize for  discovering quasicrystals, a material in which atoms were packed together in a well-defined pattern that never repeats.
Prof. Shechtman is also a professor at Iowa State University and a researcher at the United States Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory.