The Technion Timeline
Scroll through to see Technion's 100 years of achievements
In 1972, the faculty moved from the historic campus in Hadar Hacarmel to a new and spacious but half-built building…Read More
Prof. Josef Singer, from the Department of Aeronautical Engineering, had research contracts from the U.S. Air Force. His research was…Read More
The Solid State Institute is an interdisciplinary research unit at the Technion; faculty members from the Faculties of Physics, Electrical…Read More
A team of researchers led by Prof. Yitzhak Kidron develops detectors for night vision systems. The development was of crucial…Read More
Hollywood star Kirk Douglas visited the Technion to assist in filming a fundraising video for the Technion from the U.S.…Read More
The Samuel Neaman Institute was established at the Technion on the initiative of Mr. Samuel (Sam) Neaman, who was born…Read More
The School of Medicine was founded in Haifa by a group of doctors who understood the importance of a school…Read More
Shortly after the signing of the historic peace agreement with Egypt, a high level delegation visited the Technion. The minister…Read More
The Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science was originally established as a department in 1969. In 1980 it…Read More
For centuries, a crystal was considered a solid body with an external shape resembling a polyhedron. Classic examples included gemstones…Read More
Nanosatellites, detecting signals on Earth, cloud mapping, innovative technologies for propulsion in space, an autonomous satellite fleet – all these…Read More
In 1986, Professor Moussa Youdim and Professor John Feinberg, two researchers from the Faculty of Medicine at the Technion, approached…Read More
Max Reis was a chemist. Born in Berlin in 1927, he earned a doctorate in chemical engineering from Imperial College…Read More
On October 16, 1986, Ron Arad was captured by the Shia militia “Amal”, after he was forced to abandon his…Read More
In the early 1980’s the Museum was just one small exhibition room. In 1985 the Technion vacated the building, and…Read More
“Technology Entrepreneurship” is a weekly course in which entrepreneurs and startup veterans in Israel talk about their successes and failures.…Read More
In 1989, Prof. Adam Mazor initiated the idea of preparing a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and long-term master plan for Israel in…Read More
The mass immigration from the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s increased the number of students at the Technion…Read More
In 1987, research at the Technion accelerated in the field of optoelectronics, or studies and applications for light-emitting devices, leading…Read More
Zehev Tadmor (born February 6, 1937) is an Israeli scientist, a distinguished professor emeritus in the Wolfson Faculty of Chemical…Read More
The Technion Incubator (TEIC), established in 1991, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Technion through its commercialization company, Dimotech Ltd.…Read More
Mikhail Gorbachev, former leader of the USSR, visited the Technion on the occasion of receiving the Harvey Prize. Born in…Read More
The Technion program for excellence was founded by Prof. Nimrod Moiseyev of the Faculty of Chemistry. It is a personalized…Read More
Jacob Ziv, from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, won the Israel Prize in Exact Sciences. His research interests include data…Read More
The Mirabilis company is an icon of the Israeli high-tech dream. Its main investor was Yossi Vardi, the “guru” of…Read More
ZOLL® Itamar®, a division of ZOLL® Medical, is a leading company in sleep apnea diagnosis and pioneering innovative sleep apnea…Read More