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tags:
  - Organization
  - Education
  - USA
category: "Private Organization"
summary: "The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn was a New York engineering institution that, under dean Herman F. Mark's leadership from 1942, became a refuge for Jewish scientists including Chaim Weizmann and Ernst David Bergmann who later contributed to Israel's nuclear program."
start: 1854
location: "Brooklyn, New York, USA"
---
The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn is an educational institution in the [[United States]]. In 1940, [[Herman F. Mark]] was running a laboratory there, and two years later he became dean of faculty, turning the institute into a haven for Jewish refugees, including [[Chaim Weizmann]] and [[Ernst David Bergmann]].[^1]

### Footnotes

[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 2.