The Technion Timeline
Scroll through to see Technion's 100 years of achievements
Technion brought aboard professors and scientists who immigrated from Germany. They founded the Technological Department from which arose the faculties of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Chemical Engineering.
Arthur Wauchope was born into a British noble family in 1874. He attended Brampton School and in 1893 joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He fought in the Second Boer War and was seriously wounded in 1899 at Magersfontein. From 1903 to 1914, he served in British India. At the…Read More
In 1936, Dr. Shlomo Brardin, the director of Bosmat, presented the need for establishing a maritime school as part of the settlement’s awakening to the conquest of the sea and Hebrew labor. On October 18, 1938, according to Dr. Brardin’s vision, a new school was established within the premises of…Read More
A few days after the outbreak of war, David Ben-Gurion declared that “We must help the (British) army as if there was no White Book, and we must fight in the White Book as if there were no war.” Indeed, little by little the number of recruits from the Yishuv…Read More
Albert Einstein fled to the USA from the Nazi regime in 1933. He continued to support the Technion and on May 8, 1940, the American Technion Society was officially founded. Technion Societies in Israel and around the world raise funds to support the research activities that take place at the…Read More
“During World War II, as part of the settlement’s war effort, the Solel Boneh Company RE 745 was established. It included many students and graduates of the Technion, and its commander was Dov Givon, a graduate of the Technion, sixth cohort, 1932/3. In September-October 1942, a course was held for…Read More
With the approach of fighting in North Africa and towards Egypt, the fear of a German occupation of the Land of Israel rose in the settlement. Due to this concern it was decided that the British Army should be given all possible assistance. The Technion made its workshops available to…Read More
On March 18, 1946, two members of the Anglo-American Committee visited the Technion. The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry into the Affairs of the Land of Israel was a committee tasked with proposing a solution to the question of the Land of Israel and the problem of displaced Jews in Europe.…Read More
Abigail Weinbrand participated in a demonstration in Haifa against the British immigration policy, which prevented Holocaust survivors and refugees from immigrating to the Land of Israel. Abigail was the Technion’s first casualty in the struggle for immigration to the Land of Israel and was 19 years old when she died.…Read More
Henry Wallace, Vice President of the United States in the years 1941-1945 and a world-renowned researcher in the field of agronomy, came on a tour of Israel for the purpose of research on the impact of agriculture on world peace. Wallace was the US Secretary of Agriculture for seven years,…Read More
The first Independence Day was celebrated at the Technion on May 20, 1948, about a week after Ben Gurion’s announcement, at a joint meeting of the executive committee, professors, and teachers. Shlomo Kaplansky, the director of the Technion, gave a speech in which he referred to the magnitude of the…Read More
Today, Sunday, the twenty-third day of the month of Iyar, in the year 5709 since the creation of the world, May 22, 1949 – in the second year of Israel’s independence under the presidency of Chaim Weizmann, in the tenth year since the outbreak of World War II, which brought…Read More
This is the first class to graduate after the establishment of the State of Israel and the War of Independence, and most of the graduates arrived while they were still in uniform. At the ceremony, four diplomas were awarded posthumously, to graduates who were killed.
Yaakov Dori was the commander of the Haganah, the first Chief of Staff of the IDF, the president of the Technion and later the deputy mayor of Haifa. He was born in Odessa and immigrated with his family to the Land of Israel when he was six years old. Dori,…Read More
The Technion logo as it is known today, first appeared officially on an Israel postage stamp issued in 1956. The stamp was issued to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the Technion opening its first class in 1924. The Technion logo was apparently chosen as part of a competition. On June…Read More
In 1952, the Faculty of Science was established as part of the Technion’s expansion plan, and the Department of Physics was established as part of the faculty. The first head of the Department of Physics was Professor Nathan Rosen. A number of researchers such as David Bohm joined the department…Read More
The first doctoral dissertation at the Technion was submitted by Eliezer Mishkin, from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, under the supervision of Prof. Franz Ollendorff, in June 1951. The title of the thesis: “Direct Calculation of Induction Motors Based on Maxwell’s Field Equations.” Mishkin was awarded the degree of Doctor…Read More
Rachel Shalon was a professor of civil engineering at the Technion and the first female engineer in the Land of Israel. Shalon was born as Rachel Znamirowska in Kalush, Poland, to a Hasidic family. She finished high school in Warsaw, after which she studied chemical engineering at the Polytechnic. In…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 for the establishment of the Technion campus in Neve Sha’anan. The Faculty of Aeronautical Engineering was the first faculty established on the new Technion campus in Neve Sha’anan. The establishment…Read More
As early as 1937, the Technion gave courses in agricultural engineering. The Technion’s agriculture program provided technical assistance to the agricultural settlements and kibbutzim. The Hydraulics Department researchers helped turn aquaculture – fishponds – into industry. In 1953, the department of agricultural engineering was established by Walter Clay Lowdermilk. Lowdermilk,…Read More
After the selection of the area in which the campus would be expanded, the design of the new Technion City was entrusted to Alexander Klein. Klein was not only a professor of architecture at the Technion and the founder and head of the city planning division in the Faculty of…Read More
Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Jewish Danish physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1922), and one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century. He contributed significantly to understanding the structure of the atom and was one of the fathers of quantum mechanics. Bohr was also…Read More
In 1954 Prof. David Ginsburg was assigned the task of developing the Technion’s Department of Chemistry which included a number of researchers in the fields of analytical and physical chemistry. After a period of development and establishment, the Technion’s basic science departments – chemistry, physics and mathematics – received the…Read More
In November 1954, a gala dinner sponsored by the Technion was held at the Savoy Hotel in London in honor of Prime Minister of England Winston Churchill, with the participation of important figures in English Jewry.