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In the case of Dr. Vera Lyakhovitsky, such near-mira- cles happened twice, at both ends of what she describes as an oth- erwise "reasonably successful but pretty ordinary" scientific career. The first "miracle" occurred in 1952 when Dr. Lyakhovitsky, then a recent university gradu- ate in chemistry, was invited to join an institute affiliated with the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow — this at the height of Stalin's anti-Semitic terror, when trumped-up murder charges were brought against a group of Jewish doctors, and young Jewish scientists could at best hope for jobs as high school teachers in remote villages. The second exceptional event took place in 1992, when Dr. Lyakhovitsky was offered a po- sition at Israel's Weizmann In- stitute of Science. Such an offer would be welcomed by many im- migrant scientists struggling to find work in their own fields; but it was no less than miraculous for Dr. Lyakhovitsky, who was 61 years old at the time and spoke only Russian. Unlike many others, she was able to offer the right skills to the right people at the right time. And her age, paradoxically, ac- tually helped her into the insti- tute. Many resumes had passed through the hands of Professor David Cahen of the Materials and Interfaces Department, but Dr. Lyakhovitsky's stood out. Not only had she been a ranking crys- tallographer in Russia, with pub- lications in the best international journals in the field, but she had nearly 40 years of experience in growing inorganic crystals for materials research — a painstak- ing and tricky business where ex- perience counts no less than intellectual brilliance. "I went to my colleagues and told them, 'Too bad she's only 60 and not older,' because that would have given her more ex- perience," Professor Cahen re- calls. Dr. Lyakhovitsky has not let him down. She set up a crystal- growing lab that now serves the needs of research groups headed by three professors — Cahen, Shimon Vega and Reshef Tenne. She provides crystals for a vari- ety of projects, including the de- velopment of new materials such as semiconductors for future so- tar €1. 2 Dr.Lyakhovitsky this had to be obtained from oth- er labs in Israel and abroad and did not always meet specifica- tions. "Vera has opened up possibil- ities we did not have before, mak- ing crystals that were previously simply unavailable to us," Pro- fessor Cahen says. "She has re- ally put us on the map in this area." Not bad for a scientist who left her chemistry books behind, nev- er expecting to use them again, when she immigrated to Israel in 1991 to join her son and daugh- ter-in-law. Dr. Lyakhovitsky says She never expected to use her books again. she is so happy to be working in her field that she often spends seven to nine hours a day in the lab, although the stipend she re- ceives from the Israel Ministry of Immigrant Absorption and the Weizmann Institute stipulates a four-hour working day. And she doesn't have any qualms about making crystals herself, even though back in Moscow she had a half-dozen assistants growing them for her. She sees her entrance into Weizmann as no less wondrous than the beginning of her career. At the time, she had little hope of finding work in Moscow, but fate intervened in the person of a for- mer lecturer of hers, who had gone on to becomes president of the USSR Academy of Sciences and whom she met accidentally in the street. His personal intercession, as well as a chain of other lucky de- velopments for which she has no rational explanation, landed her a job at the Moscow Institute of Crystallography. Because she was Jewish, Dr. Lvakhovitskv was_notallow_ed_to