The Technion Timeline

Scroll through to see Technion's 100 years of achievements

1934
Dr. Luisa Bonfiglioli, head of the Department of Descriptive Geometry and Technical Drawing recruited by the Technion

Prof. Luisa Bonfiglioli was a mythological lecturer in the mathematics department. She was accepted at the Technion after immigrating from…Read More

1935
German Professors and scientists immigrated

Technion brought aboard professors and scientists who immigrated from Germany. They founded the Technological Department from which arose the faculties…Read More

Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, High Commissioner in Palestine, visits the Technion

Arthur Wauchope was born into a British noble family in 1874. He attended Brampton School and in 1893 joined the…Read More

1938
Establishment of a Nautical School

In 1936, Dr. Shlomo Brardin, the director of Bosmat, presented the need for establishing a maritime school as part of…Read More

1939
The Second World War

A few days after the outbreak of war, David Ben-Gurion declared that “We must help the (British) army as if…Read More

1940
Establishment of the American Technion Society

Albert Einstein fled to the USA from the Nazi regime in 1933. He continued to support the Technion and on…Read More

1941
1943
Establishment of the Solel Boneh Royal Engineers Company WW2

“During World War II, as part of the settlement’s war effort, the Solel Boneh Company RE 745 was established. It…Read More

1945
The Technion supports the British Army

With the approach of fighting in North Africa and towards Egypt, the fear of a German occupation of the Land…Read More

1946
Members of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine visit

On March 18, 1946, two members of the Anglo-American Committee visited the Technion. The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry into the…Read More

Abigail Weinbrand, a secretary at the Technion, was killed in a demonstration against the British mandate.

Abigail Weinbrand participated in a demonstration in Haifa against the British immigration policy, which prevented Holocaust survivors and refugees from…Read More

1947
Henry Wallace, former vice president of the USA, visits the Technion

Henry Wallace, Vice President of the United States in the years 1941-1945 and a world-renowned researcher in the field of…Read More

1948
First Independence Day

The first Independence Day was celebrated at the Technion on May 20, 1948, about a week after Ben Gurion’s announcement,…Read More

1949
Laying of the cornerstone for the Electrical Laboratories building

Today, Sunday, the twenty-third day of the month of Iyar, in the year 5709 since the creation of the world,…Read More

Graduation of the 20th cohort of Technion students

This is the first class to graduate after the establishment of the State of Israel and the War of Independence,…Read More

1950
1951
Yaakov Dori, 7th president of the Technion 1951-1965

Yaakov Dori was the commander of the Haganah, the first Chief of Staff of the IDF, the president of the…Read More

Technion’s logo unveiled

The Technion logo as it is known today, first appeared officially on an Israel postage stamp issued in 1956. The…Read More

Establishment of the Faculty of Science including the Physics Department chaired by Prof. Nathan Rosen

In 1952, the Faculty of Science was established as part of the Technion’s expansion plan, and the Department of Physics…Read More

The first doctoral dissertation at the Technion

The first doctoral dissertation at the Technion was submitted by Eliezer Mishkin, from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, under the…Read More

1952
Rahel Shalon, first Technion graduate to reach rank of full professor

Rachel Shalon was a professor of civil engineering at the Technion and the first female engineer in the Land of…Read More

First Doctorate

In 1952, the Technion approved the first doctoral thesis submitted at the academic institution, by a graduate of the faculty.

Decision to expand the campus and selection of site for new buildings

The Faculty of Aeronautics was the first faculty established on the new Technion campus in Neve Sha’anan.

1953
The cornerstone of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering

On April 21, 1953, the cornerstone was laid for the Faculty of Aeronautical Engineering Building, which was also the cornerstone…Read More

Establishment of the Department of Agricultural Engineering

As early as 1937, the Technion gave courses in agricultural engineering. The Technion’s agriculture program provided technical assistance to the…Read More

Establishment of the Neve Sha’anan campus planned by Alexander Klein

After the selection of the area in which the campus would be expanded, the design of the new Technion City…Read More

Niels Bohr, awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics, visits the Technion

Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Jewish Danish physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1922), and one of…Read More

1954
Establishment of the faculty of chemistry / chemical engineering

In 1954 Prof. David Ginsburg was assigned the task of developing the Technion’s Department of Chemistry which included a number…Read More

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