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Albert Einstein at Technion; 11 February 1923. The Technikum was conceived in the early 1900s by the German-Jewish fund Ezrah as a school of engineering and sciences. It was to be the only institution of higher learning in the then Ottoman Palestine, other than the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem (founded in 1906). [15]
The Technion, 1937 The Technion, 1945 Refugees from the Holocaust arriving in Haifa. Shlomo Kaplansky was the President of the university from 1931 to 1950. [32] In the 1930s, the Institute absorbed large numbers of Jewish students and distinguished scholars from Poland, Germany, and Austria, who were fleeing the Nazi regime.
The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, has had 16 presidents and directors in more than a century of history, as of 2024. [1] [2] The following is a list of presidents of the Technion ordered by date: Arthur Blok (1924–1925) Eng. Max Hecker (1925–1927) Shmuel Pewsner (1927–1929) Prof. Aharon Tcherniavsky (1927 ...
The Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences is an academic faculty of the Technion and the oldest such department in Israel. The department is currently headed by Prof. Rann Smorodinsky and is based in the Cooper and Bloomfield buildings at Technion City. The department employs 52 faculty members, who as of 2023 served a total of 500 graduate and ...
The American Technion Society and global Technion societies have created an international network. Many members of Technion Societies are prominent leaders in their respective fields. T3 makes every use of this international source of expertise in the service of its on-going commercialization effort. [17]
Harvey Prize is an annual Israeli award for breakthroughs in science and technology, as well as contributions to peace in the Middle East granted by the Technion in Haifa. The prize has become a " Nobel predictor" over the years, as around 30% of its recipients have become Nobel prize winners. [ 1 ]
Uri Sivan (אורי סיון)(born 1955) is an Israeli physicist who is the 17th president of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He is also the holder of the Bertoldo Badler Chair in the Technion's Faculty of Physics.
Yohanan Ratner, the first Dean of the Faculty of Architecture The Technion building, garden and surrounding buildings; aerial photograph by Zoltan Kluger 1937–1938. In its early years, the Technion was housed in a building planned by the first head of the Architecture department, Professor Alexander Baerwald (1877–1930) in the Hadar neighborhood in the heart of Haifa.