The Technion Timeline
Scroll through to see Technion's 100 years of achievements
Prof. Luisa Bonfiglioli was a mythological lecturer in the mathematics department. She was accepted at the Technion after immigrating from…Read More
Technion brought aboard professors and scientists who immigrated from Germany. They founded the Technological Department from which arose the faculties…Read More
Arthur Wauchope was born into a British noble family in 1874. He attended Brampton School and in 1893 joined the…Read More
In 1936, Dr. Shlomo Brardin, the director of Bosmat, presented the need for establishing a maritime school as part of…Read More
A few days after the outbreak of war, David Ben-Gurion declared that “We must help the (British) army as if…Read More
Albert Einstein fled to the USA from the Nazi regime in 1933. He continued to support the Technion and on…Read More
“During World War II, as part of the settlement’s war effort, the Solel Boneh Company RE 745 was established. It…Read More
With the approach of fighting in North Africa and towards Egypt, the fear of a German occupation of the Land…Read More
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 participated in a demonstration in Haifa against the British immigration policy, which prevented Holocaust survivors and refugees from…Read More
Henry Wallace, Vice President of the United States in the years 1941-1945 and a world-renowned researcher in the field of…Read More
The first Independence Day was celebrated at the Technion on May 20, 1948, about a week after Ben Gurion’s announcement,…Read More
Today, Sunday, the twenty-third day of the month of Iyar, in the year 5709 since the creation of the world,…Read More
This is the first class to graduate after the establishment of the State of Israel and the War of Independence,…Read More
Yaakov Dori was the commander of the Haganah, the first Chief of Staff of the IDF, the president of the…Read More
The Technion logo as it is known today, first appeared officially on an Israel postage stamp issued in 1956. The…Read More
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 was submitted by Eliezer Mishkin, from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, under the…Read More
Rachel Shalon was a professor of civil engineering at the Technion and the first female engineer in the Land of…Read More
In 1952, the Technion approved the first doctoral thesis submitted at the academic institution, by a graduate of the faculty.
The Faculty of Aeronautics was the first faculty established on the new Technion campus in Neve Sha’anan.
On April 21, 1953, the cornerstone was laid for the Faculty of Aeronautical Engineering Building, which was also the cornerstone…Read More
As early as 1937, the Technion gave courses in agricultural engineering. The Technion’s agriculture program provided technical assistance to the…Read More
After the selection of the area in which the campus would be expanded, the design of the new Technion City…Read More
Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Jewish Danish physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1922), and one of…Read More
In 1954 Prof. David Ginsburg was assigned the task of developing the Technion’s Department of Chemistry which included a number…Read More