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- Organization
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- Education
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- USA
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category: "Private Organization"
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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."
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start: 1854
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location: "Brooklyn, New York, USA"
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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]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 2. |