{"id":83620,"date":"2011-10-06T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T07:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/blog\/the-technion-nobel-tradition\/"},"modified":"2011-10-06T09:06:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T07:06:00","slug":"the-technion-nobel-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/the-technion-nobel-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Technion Nobel Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nobel Laureate Albert Einstein used to play violin in a string quartet with historic Technion architect and faculty member Prof. Alexander Baerwald. In the recession after WW1, dreams of making the Technion a functioning reality were slim, and Einstein was invited to come visit the waiting buildings designed by his friend and to advise on the dream of opening a technical institute in Haifa. On that day, the Nobel Laureate and his wife planted two trees to mark the occasion. On his return to Berlin, Einstein would open and chair the world’s first Technion society – the initiation of an apparatus that would generate a century of progress, teaching and expansion as the decade by decade, the Technion could anticpate and meet the needs of a fledgling nation.<\/div>\n
On the 100th anniversary of the Technion’s first cornerstone, Technion’s Prof. Dan Shechtman was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. He is today Technion’s third Nobel Laureate, joining Prof. Avraham Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover. All three of them follow the spirit of scientific integrity and excellence in pure research displayed by founding father Albert Einstein, to whom the Technion owes so much. Scroll down to absorb a little of the Technion’s Nobel legacy.<\/div>\n
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LOKEY PARK ~ TECHNION GARDEN OF NOBEL LAUREATES<\/span><\/div>\n

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Technion 2011 Nobel Laureate Danny Shectman will be joining a list of Nobel Laureates who planted trees to celebrate their visit to Technion. The tradition was begun by Prof. Albert Einstein – Chairman of the first Technion Society, who planted two palm trees in 1923 in front of the Technion’s majestic first building in Hadar, Haifa.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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1921: Albert Einstein initiates the Technion Nobel tradition.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Nobel Laureate Trees planted at\u00a0Lokey Park<\/a>\u00a0and on Technion soil.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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