Established School Of Nutritional Sciences at HUJI
First woman dean at HUJI
Studied operating mechanism of protease inhibitors, which prevent viral replication.
Discovered the β-Lipotropin hormone, which is metabolized into endorphins that affect mood and behavior

 

Israel Prize 1984. Studied the influence of chemical treatment on the feeding value of agricultural by-products and on the composition of structural carbohydrates contained in these feedstuffs. The influence of the concentrate: roughage ratio of the diets for high-producing dairy cows on feed efficiency and digestibility of the diets. Feed utilization in high-producing milk cows.

Israel Prize 1957 Ruppin Prize 1967
Among the founders of the Agricultural Research Station of the Jewish Agency in Rehovot.
Worked on acclimatizating plants to local Israeli conditions, including peanuts and many common fodder pasture crops. Author of "Torat HaSadeh" , long considered the guidebook of Israeli agriculture.

Hillel Oppenheimerm, born and educated in Germany,  became the keeper of the Aaron Aaronsohn Herbarium in Zichron Yaacov in 1926. He joined Hebrew University as a botanist and plant physiologist, and  established the horticultural, physiological, and genetics station at the Jewish Agency's Agricultural Experiment Station at Reḥovot, which later became the Faculty of Agriculture. He founded The Palestine Journal of Botany. His was an authority on citrus crops. In 1959 he received the Israel Prize in Agriculture.

 

 

 Wahl started to teach at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Faculty of Agriculture in Rehovot, where he developed Plant Pathology as one of the important disciplines. He later moved to Tel Aviv University where he established the Institute for Cereal Crops Improvement. He looked at  host-pathogen interaction in its wider ecological concept, including the weed progenitors of the cultivated crop species.  Wahl's research on the cultivated and wild progenitors of barley, oats and wheat, and on their pathogens led not only to new sources of resistance but also to a better understanding of the wild ecosystem.  Prof. Wahl and his students found many new sources of disease resistance, which they characterized and made available freely to crop improvement teams worldwide. Wahl was honored with the prestigious Rothschild Prize (1964) and the Harvey Prize (1978), and with the Bruno Kreisky Award for Service to Humanity (Vienna, Austria, 1985). The President of Israel presented him in 1992 with the prestigious Israel Prize in the Life Sciences for his work in pathology and mycology.