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\n<\/span>The Technion’s historic building was designed by the renowned Jewish German architect, Alexander Baerwald. His design includes both oriental and European motives. It is built from sandstone quarried in Tantura and Atlit. The building was part of Baerwald\u2019s plan of an open corridor leading directly to the bay. He also designed buildings that would line the road, of which some were built, indeed (e.g. the Hebrew Reali School).\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\nThe building\u2019s cornerstone was laid in 1912. The building\u2019s construction was delayed during the First World War. The partially completed building was used, then, as a military hospital. In 1925 it became the home of Israel\u2019s first institute of higher education \u2013 The Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. Until 1953, all the Technion Faculties were located there. By 1965, most of them have moved to the Technion new campus in Haifa\u2019s Nave Shaanan. The Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning stayed in the historic Technion building until 1985.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/div>\nTimeline of the Century<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n2012: Technion partners with Cornell University to found the Technion Cornell Institute of Innovation (TCII), an international ‘School of Genius’ in the heart of New York City.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n2011: Technion Prof. Dan Shechtman receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of quasicrystals.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n2007: Technion pools its brainpower in a unique multidisciplinary center for research into energy science, technology and engineering: The Grand Technion Energy Program.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n2006: Technion is Israel’s 1st university to receive the Nobel Prize for Science. Prof. Aaron Ciechanover and Prof. Avram Hershko jointly receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery, together with Irwin Rose, of the ubiquitin system within living cells.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n2005: Technion opens the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI) to further empower and concentrate the plethora of excellent scientists, researchers and students pioneering science in the nano dimension.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n2001: Technion scientists reveal they have long been quietly researching solutions to meet the threat of 3rd millennium terrorism as revealed by the horrific events in the US of September 11th<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n1998: Combining microbiology and microelectronics, scientists show how to make a transistor 1\/100,000th the size of a human hair<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n1993: Technion students design and launch their own satellite: Gurwin Tech Sat. The satellite is still in orbit.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n1991: Gulf War – Technion shows that the integration of expertise of Israel’s top institute of technology with its dynamic medical school makes Technion first responders in responding to missile attack on the home-front.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n1989: Optoelectronics: A new center of excellence pioneering the technological promise of an expert understanding of light.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n1982<\/span>: The Rappaport Family<\/span><\/em>\u00a0Institute for Research in the Medical Sciences is established. During more than two decades of activity, the Institute has established itself as an internationally recognized research center and counts among its members several world-renowned scientists.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
1981:\u00a0Fiberoptics is pioneered by Technion<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n1978:\u00a0Camp David accords with Egypt: the scientific challenges of peace and nation-planning means that in addition to its many projects in water management and environmental engineering, the Technion sets up the Samuel Neaman Institute.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n1973: Yom Kippur War<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n1971: The\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span>Faculty of Biology is set up.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n1969: The faculty of medicine is born.\u00a0<\/strong>The first class consists of 43 students who had their preclinical education abroad. They were admitted to the fourth year and finished the requirements for the degree of Medical Doctor (M.D.), after two years of clinical training in the hospitals.\u00a0<\/strong>The same year also sees the birth of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the\u00a0<\/strong>Faculty of Computer Science.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n1967: Six-Day War,\u00a0<\/strong>Faculty of Materials Engineering<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\u00a0is set up.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n1966: Agricultural engineering degrees awarded to students from Africa and Asia<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n1965: Department of Education in Technology and Science<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n1962: Faculty of Food Engineering and Biotechnology<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n1961: Technion offers a \u00a0flourishing graduate school and R&D foundation<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n1960: The Faculty of Mathematics<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\u00a0and the\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span>Faculty of Physics<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\u00a0are formed.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/div>\n1958: \u00a0The opening of the\u00a0<\/strong>Faculty of Chemistry, the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, and The\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Department of Humanities and Arts<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/div>\n1956: Students take part in the Sinai War<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n1954: Technion founding father Prof. Albert Einstein is awarded a Technion honorary doctorate.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>The Faculty of Chemical Engineering is opened.<\/strong><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n1953:The Department of Aeronautical Engineering and the \u00a0<\/strong>Faculty of Agricultural Engineering<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0are set up in the new campus.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n1952: Rapid growth and expansion and increasing demand for Technion graduates and engineers nation-wide means the Technion leaves its first home in the historic building in down-town Haifa. Prime-Minister David Ben Gurion selects the new site for Technion City further up the slopes of Mount Carmel.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n1948: With 680 students, Technion celebrates the declaration of independence. Studies are disrupted for most of the year as faculty and students fight for independence. The\u00a0<\/strong>Faculty of Electrical Engineering<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\u00a0and the\u00a0<\/strong>Faculty of Mechanical Engineering<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\u00a0are opened.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n1944: Survival tasks – Technion develops early warning systems against air attacks as well as weapons for the Hagannah, the Israeli underground army that are preparing for the War of Independence.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n1943: 1000 skilled Technion graduates join the war effort against Nazi Germany<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n1938:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>The Faculties of civil engineering<\/strong><\/span>, architecture, industrial engineering and opened, together with 11 new labs and a nautical school<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n1935:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>The Polish government recognizes Technion<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
1934: The Faculty of Industrial Technology is established covering broad fields.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n1931:<\/strong>\u00a0