This story was first told in Tom Segev's book The Seven Million (2000).
I've long believed that Chaim Weizmann was personally involved in the poising of a number of important people with whom he was in contact. One in particular, Lord Northcliffe, took ill following a violent meeting with Weizmann. He died a very painful death, the cause of which was uncertain, though he claimed he'd been poisoned. A claim which was dismissed as "paranoia".
Weizmann was a leading authority on the various clostridiums. In 1916 he used this knowledge to make possible the mass production of acetone then needed by the Royal Navy who used Cordite RDB as a propellant.
This acetone was produced by industrial fermentation using the bacterium Clostridium acetobutylicum also known as the "Weizmann Organism".
This story was first told in Tom Segev's book The Seven Million (2000).
ReplyDeleteI've long believed that Chaim Weizmann was personally involved in the poising of a number of important people with whom he was in contact. One in particular, Lord Northcliffe, took ill following a violent meeting with Weizmann. He died a very painful death, the cause of which was uncertain, though he claimed he'd been poisoned. A claim which was dismissed as "paranoia".
Weizmann was a leading authority on the various clostridiums. In 1916 he used this knowledge to make possible the mass production of acetone then needed by the Royal Navy who used Cordite RDB as a propellant.
This acetone was produced by industrial fermentation using the bacterium Clostridium acetobutylicum also known as the "Weizmann Organism".