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The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology is a
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located in
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, Israel. Established in 1912 by Jews under the dominion of the
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, the Technion is the oldest university in the country. The university offers degrees in science and engineering, and related fields such as architecture, medicine, industrial management, and education. It has 19 academic departments, 60 research centers, and 12 affiliated teaching hospitals. Since its founding, it has awarded more than 123,000 degrees and its graduates are cited for providing the skills and education behind the creation and protection of the
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. Technion's 565 faculty members include three Nobel Laureates in chemistry. Four
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have been associated with the university. The current president of the Technion is Uri Sivan. The selection of
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as the language of instruction, defeating German in the War of the Languages, was an important milestone in Hebrew's consolidation as Israel's official language. The Technion is also a major factor behind the growth of Israel's high-tech industry and innovation, including the country's technical cluster in Silicon Wadi.


History

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
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(founded in 1906). In October 1913, the board of trustees selected German as the language of instruction, provoking a major controversy known as the War of the Languages. After opposition from American and Russian Jews to the use of German, the board of trustees reversed itself in February 1914 and selected Hebrew as the language of instruction. The German name Technikum was also replaced by the Hebrew name Technion. Technion's cornerstone was laid in 1912, and studies began 12 years later in 1924. In 1923
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visited and planted the now-famous first
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, as an initiative of Nobel tradition. The first palm tree still stands today in front of the old Technion building, which is now the MadaTech museum, in the Hadar neighborhood. Einstein founded the first Technion Society, and served as its president upon his return to
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. In 1924, Arthur Blok became the Technion's first president. In the early 1950s, under the administration of Yaakov Dori, who had served as the Israel Defense Forces’ first chief of staff, the Technion launched a campaign to recruit Jewish and pro-Israel scientists from abroad to establish research laboratories and teaching departments in the natural and exact sciences.


Campuses


Haifa

Technion City generally refers to the 1.2-square-kilometer site located on the pine-covered north-eastern slopes of
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. The campus comprises over 300 buildings. The Technion has two additional campuses. Its original building in midtown Haifa, in use by the Technion until the mid-1980s, now houses the Israel National Museum of Science, Technology and Space. The Rappaport Faculty of Medicine is located in the neighborhood of Bat Galim, adjacent to Rambam Hospital, the largest medical center in Northern Israel. Recreational activities on the main campus include an Olympic-size swimming pool as well as gymnastics, squash, and tennis facilities. The Technion Symphony Orchestra and Choir are composed mainly of Technion students and staff. Each term, the Orchestra offers a series of daytime and evening concerts. Films and live performances by leading Israeli artists take place on campus on a regular basis. In April 2022, a cable car station of the Rakvalit was opened at the main campus, connecting the Technion to Haifa University (higher up on Mount Carmel) and to the HaMifratz Central Bus Station and public transit hub at the foot of Mount Carmel.


Tel Aviv

Technion's Division of Continuing Education and External Studies has been operating in the Tel Aviv area since 1958. In July 2013, the Technion moved to a new campus in Sarona. The Technion satellite campus in Sarona includes three buildings in a 1,800 sq. meter area, with a total of 16 modern classrooms. Among the programs that are taught at Sarona are the Technion's International MBA program, which includes students from around the world and guest lecturers from universities such as
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, and
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.


Cornell Tech

On 19 December 2011, a bid by a consortium of
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and Technion won a competition to establish a new high-tier applied science and engineering institution in New York City. The competition was established by New York City Mayor
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in order to increase entrepreneurship and job growth in the city's technology sector. The winning bid consisted of a state-of-the-art tech campus, built on
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, which had its first phase completed by 2017, with a temporary off-site campus opening in 2013 at the
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New York City headquarters building at 111 Eighth Avenue. The new school has been named the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute. Its Founding Director was Craig Gotsman, Technion's Hewlett-Packard Professor of Computer Engineering. In 2015, AOL announced an investment of $5 million in a video research project at the institute. Positive media coverage abounds, as well as some small scale protests from the margins of political and environmental activism.


Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology

In September 2013 the Li Ka Shing Foundation and the Technion announced they would be joining forces to create a new institute for technology at
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, Guangdong province, south-eastern China. The Li Ka Shing Foundation pledged a grant of US$130 million for the creation of the institute. The degrees taught, including Bachelors, Masters and Doctorates, will be accredited by the Technion. The total construction costs are $147 million. English will be GTIIT's language of instruction. GTIIT will comprise three units: the College of Engineering; the College of Science; and the College of Life Science. The goal is to have about 5,000 students eventually. The institute will eventually grant Technion engineering degrees at all levels - Bachelor, Masters and PhD. Initially the courses offered are Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Materials Engineering. By 2020 the institute will start teaching other disciplines from Mechanics to Aerospace Engineering.


Faculties


Aerospace Engineering

Founded in 1954, the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering conducts research and education in a wide range of aerospace disciplines. The Aerospace Research Center also consists of the Aerodynamics (wind tunnels) Laboratory, the Aerospace Structures Laboratory, the Combustion and Rocket Propulsion Laboratory, the Turbo and Jet Engine Laboratory, the Flight Control Laboratory and the Design for Manufacturing Laboratory.


Architecture and Town Planning

The Technion Faculty of Architecture awards BSc in architecture degree after four years and March professional degree after six years of study. The faculty offers 4 programs: Architecture (under graduate and graduate), Landscape architecture (undergraduate and graduate), Industrial design (graduate) and regional and urban planning (graduate). Its undergraduate program in architecture and landscape architecture accepts about 100 students each year. Its graduate programs accepts about 70 students each year, and it accepts about 15 doctoral students, focusing on subjects related to it four programs.


Biology

The Faculty of Biology was established in 1971. Advanced research is carried out in 23 research groups, focusing on a variety of aspects of cellular, molecular and developmental biology. The faculty has extensive collaborations with the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. The Faculty has around 350 undergraduate students and over 100 graduate students.The Technion Insider: Technion prospectus from 2007.


Biomedical Engineering

Established in 1968, the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering has a multidisciplinary scope nurturing research activities that blend medical and biological engineering. Research projects have resulted in the development of patented medical aids. Recent research breakthroughs include the identification of a structured neurological code for syllables and could let paraplegics "speak" virtually through the connection of the brain to a computer.


Biotechnology and Food Engineering

Unique in Israel, the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering offers a blend of courses in engineering, life and natural sciences as well as joint degree programs with the Faculties of Biology and Chemistry. The Faculty houses biotechnology laboratories, as well as a large food processing pilot plant and a packaging laboratory. It currently has 350 undergraduates and more than 120 graduate students.


Civil and Environmental Engineering

In 2002, two of the original Technion Faculties – Civil and Agricultural engineering, were merged to create the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The Faculty is the home of Technion's expanding International School of Engineering.


Chemical Engineering

The Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering is Israel's oldest and largest faculty in the field, educating the vast majority of chemical engineers in Israel's chemical industries. Research activities include materials, complex fluids, processing, transport and surface phenomena and process control.


Chemistry

The Schulich Faculty of Chemistry offers a variety of joint programs, including with materials engineering, chemical engineering, physics, and food engineering. It also offers a joint degree with the Faculty of Biology leading to a degree in molecular biochemistry. Around 100 research projects at the faculty are sponsored by industry and national and international foundations. It also offers a variety of outreach and youth programs.


Coastal and Marine Engineering Research Institute (CAMERI)

Held equally by the Technion and The Israeli Ports Company, The Israeli CAMERI is the leading applicative research Institute in Israel dedicated to Physical Oceanography, Marine Engineering and Coastal Engineering. Founded in 1976 it hosts two research facilities (wave-basin and wave-flume), both are the biggest of their kind in Israel. CAMERI has become with time a national authority in various data and research aspects related to the Israeli coastal and marine environments.


Computer Science

Founded in 1969, this is one of the largest Technion faculties, with over 1,800 undergraduate students and 300 graduate students. The Faculty of Computer Science was ranked 15th among 500 universities in computer sciences for 2011 and 18th of 500 since 2012. The Faculty is located in the Taub Family Science and Technology Center, following the support of the philanthropist Henry Taub.


Education in Technology and Science

Founded in 1965, the Department of Education in Technology & Science became a faculty in 2015. The faculty trains undergraduates in the most advanced methods of teaching science and technology in schools. The faculty is home to a research and development center in the field. It has over 100 graduate students and 350 undergraduate students including second career engineers and scientists who elect to study toward STEM educator career.


Electrical Engineering

The Faculty of Electrical Engineering claims to be the major source of engineers who lead the development of advanced Israeli technology in the fields of electronics, computers and communications. Some 2000 undergraduate students study in the department for a BSc degree in electrical engineering / computer engineering / computer and software engineering, and 400 graduate students study for the degrees of MSc and PhD. The department has extensive relations with industry as well as academic and industrial special liaison support programs.


Humanities and Arts

The Department of Humanities and Arts serves all the Technion community, offering courses taught by visiting and adjunct scholars including philosophy of science, social and political sciences, linguistics, psychology, law and anthropology and an array of theoretical and performing arts courses. The Technion Theater was established in 1986, by Professor Ouriel Zohar. The theater teaches 8 courses, and it has about 150 students per semester. The theater presented 52 performances in different styles, some by Hanoch Levin,
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, Moliere,
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, Pierre de Marivaux,
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and Bernard Shaw, Sławomir Mrożek among others. The theater also presented plays written by the director and the actors. The theater is invited to many festivals in Europe universities. Director Scandar Copti received Ophir Award in 2010, played in "End End" directed by Zohar, which was presented in
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festival in 2001. Shlomo Plessner participated in collective plays "soft mattress" and "Mix Marriage" 1986–1987. The play "Transparent Chains" by Sheli Baliti from the Faculty of
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performed at
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in 2006,
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, Haifa Cinematheque, Neve Yosef Festival and the Theatre Department at the
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in 2007. The play An Enemy of the People by Ibsen, the main actor Rooney Navon, Professor at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, received honorable nomination at
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in Italy in 2009, and also in Isfia near Haifa. The Show "invisible clothes" written and directed by Ouriel Zohar presented at The International Theater Festival in
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in 2012.


Data and Decision Sciences

The Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences, formerly the William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering & Management (IE&M). The faculty was launched as a Technion academic Department in 1958. The Department grew under the leadership of ''Pinchas Naor'', who served as its founding Dean. Naor's vision was to combine Industrial engineering with Management by creating a large, inherently multidisciplinary unit covering a wide spectrum of activities such as applied engineering, mathematical modeling, economics,
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,
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and statistics. Over the years, the faculty underwent significant shifts in research focus and curriculum, leading to a name change in January 2023 to the Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences, better reflecting its academic core.


Materials Science and Engineering

Home to Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Distinguished Prof. Dan Shechtman, the Faculty of Materials Engineering is Israel's major study center in materials science. The Faculty houses the Electron Microscopy Center, the X-Ray Diffraction Laboratory, the Atomic force microscopy Laboratory and the Physical and Mechanical Measurements lab.


Mathematics

The Faculty of Mathematics houses both pure and applied mathematics, and was home to the mathematician
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. Founded in 1950, it has around 46 faculty members, 200 undergraduate students and 100 graduate students. It provides instruction for students in all other Technion faculties and organizes mathematics competition for gifted high school students and a summer camp in number theory.


Mechanical Engineering

Founded in 1948, the Technion Faculty of Mechanical Engineering has over 830 students and 215 graduate students. Research is conducted in the faculty's 36 laboratories across the whole spectrum of mechanical engineering, from nano-scale fields through to applied engineering of national projects.


Medicine

The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine is home to two
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: Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover. It is one of four state-sponsored medical schools in Israel. It was founded in 1979 through the philanthropy of Bruce Rappaport and is active in basic science research and pre-clinical medical training in
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immunology Immunology is a branch of biology and medicine that covers the study of Immune system, immune systems in all Organism, organisms. Immunology charts, measures, and contextualizes the Physiology, physiological functioning of the immune system in ...
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. Other facilities on the Faculty of Medicine campus include teaching laboratories, a medical library, lecture halls, and seminar rooms. Academic programs lead to Master of Science (M.S.), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), and Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degrees. It also offers medical training leading to a M.D. degree to qualified American and Canadian graduates of pre-med programs under the Technion American Medical School Program (TeAMS). The school has developed collaborative research and medical education programs with various institutions in medicine and bio-medical engineering including
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and Mayo Medical School.


Physics

The Faculty of Physics engages in experimental and theoretical research in the fields of astrophysics, high energy physics, solid state physics and biophysics. Founded in 1960, it includes the Einstein Institute of Physics, the Lidow Physics Complex, The Rosen Solid State Building and the Werksman Physics Building.


Multidisciplinary centers


Nanotechnology and science

The Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI) was established in January 2005 as a joint endeavour of the Russell Berrie Foundation, the government of Israel, and the Technion. It is one of the largest academic programs in Israel, and is among the largest nanotechnology centers in Europe and the US. RBNI has over 110 faculty members, and approximately 300 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows under its auspices at Technion. Its multidisciplinary activities span 14 different faculties.


Energy research

The GTEP Nancy and Stephen Grand Technion Energy Program is a multidisciplinary center of excellence bringing together Technion's top researchers in energy science and technology from over nine different faculties. Founded in 2007, GTEP's 4-point strategy targets research and development of alternative fuels; renewable energy sources; energy storage and conversion; and energy conservation. The GTEP is presently the only center in Israel offering graduate studies in energy science and technology.


Space research

The Norman and Helen Asher Space Research Institute (ASRI) is a specialized institute dedicated to multidisciplinary
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. Established in 1984, its members come from five Technion faculties, and it has a technical staff of Technion scientists in a variety of space-related fields: (Physics, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Autonomous Systems, and Computer Sciences).


Technion international

The Technion International (TI) is a department in the Technion, offering courses taught entirely in English. The TI began its first year in 2009, and now offers a full BSc in Civil Engineering, BSc in Mechanical Engineering as well as various study abroad options, all taught in English. Student come from all over the globe – Asia, Africa, North and South America, Europe and Israel. They live on campus and enjoy trips around Israel and activities throughout the year.


Technology transfer, partnerships and outreach programs

Technion has a dedicated office to bridge the transition of scientific and technological discovery to successfully commercialized innovation since 2007: T3 – Technion Technology Transfer. As of 2011, 424
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were granted to Technion innovations, with 845 patents pending. T3's partners include incubators, entrepreneurs, private investors, VCs and angel groups. It has strategic partnerships with
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, among others. Technion offers after-school and summer enrichment courses for young people on subjects ranging from introductory electronics and computer programming to aerospace, architecture, biology, chemistry and physics. Two examples are Scitech and the Math Summer Camp, devoted to number theory. Technion set up the Israeli chapter of Engineers Without Borders, which among other projects, installed a network of
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systems in rural
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providing sustainable energy and improved sanitation. The Technion includes students from underrepresented groups such as Haredim and Arabs through scholarships, social programs and financial support. The Technion is one of the main sponsors of the Israeli league of FIRST robotics competition which became a formal project of the Technion since 2013. The percentage of
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students at the Technion equals the percentage of the general Arab population in Israel: 20%. The Technion and Technische Universität Darmstadt formed a partnership in cyber security, entrepreneurship and materials science. Technion became a partner of Washington University in St. Louis through the
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Rankings and reputation

Technion is commonly referred to as "Israel's
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" due to its reputation for math and science talent. As of June 2023, Technion is ranked 79th in the world by ShanghaiRanking, 83rd worldwide in the ARWU 2022, 317th in the USNEWS Global Universities Ranking 2022-2023, 392nd worldwide in the QS WUR 2024, and 501–600th in the THE WUR 2023. Technion is the 288th best-ranked university worldwide in 2022 in terms of aggregate performance across QS, THE, and ARWU. In 2012, the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) ranked Technion 51st in the world and third in Israel. Previously, Technion has been ranked 183rd worldwide in QS WUR 2014 and 193rd worldwide in THE WUR 2013. Technion was ranked 176–200th worldwide in the THE Reputation Ranking 2020. In 2012, the magazine
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ranked Technion among the top 25 engineering schools in the world. In 2013, the Technion was the only school outside the United States to make it into the top 10 on a new Bloomberg Rankings list of schools whose graduates are CEOs of top U.S. tech companies.


Notable research

* In 1982, Dan Shechtman discovered a
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structure. This is a structure with a Symmetry in the order of 5 – a phenomenon considered impossible until then by the then-current prevailing theories of
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. In 2011 he won the
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for this discovery. * In 2004, two Technion professors, Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover, won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the biological system responsible for disassembling protein in the cell. * Shulamit Levenberg, 37, was chosen by ''
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'' magazine as one of the leading scientists in 2006 for the discovery of a method to transplant skin in a way the body does not reject. * Moussa B.H. Youdim developed
Rasagiline Rasagiline, sold under the brand name Azilect among others, is a medication which is used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease. It is used as a monotherapy to treat symptoms in early Parkinson's disease or as an adjunct therapy in more advan ...
, a drug marketed by
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as Azilect (TM) for the treatment of neurodegenerative disease, especially
Parkinson's disease Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a neurodegenerative disease primarily of the central nervous system, affecting both motor system, motor and non-motor systems. Symptoms typically develop gradually and non-motor issues become ...
. * In 1998, Technion successfully launched the "Gurwin TechSat II" microsatellite, making Technion one of five universities with a student program that designs, builds, and launches its own satellite. The satellite stayed in orbit until 2010. * In the 1970s, computer scientists Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv developed the Lempel-Ziv-Welch algorithm for data compression. In 1995 and 2007 they won an IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal for pioneering work in data compression and especially for developing the algorithm. *In 2019, a team of 12 students won a gold medal at iGEM for developing bee-free honey.


Library

The Technion library system is made of the Elyachar Central Library and research libraries that are located in the faculty buildings. The Central Library determines professional policies and guidelines and provides services for all the Technion libraries, including the library operating systems, the libraries'
web portal A web portal is a specially designed website that brings information from diverse sources, like emails, online forums and search engines, together in a uniform way. Usually, each information source gets its dedicated area on the page for displayin ...
, acquisitions,
cataloging In library and information science, cataloging (American English, US) or cataloguing (British English, UK) is the process of creating metadata representing information resources, such as books, sound recordings, moving images, etc. Cataloging ...
,
classification Classification is the activity of assigning objects to some pre-existing classes or categories. This is distinct from the task of establishing the classes themselves (for example through cluster analysis). Examples include diagnostic tests, identif ...
, and
interlibrary loan Inter-library loan (abbreviated ILL, sometimes called document delivery, document supply, inter-lending, inter-library services, inter-loan, or resource sharing) is a service that enables patrons of one library to borrow materials that are held by ...
s. The faculty research libraries' aim is to focus on the information needs of their students and academic staff. The libraries are transforming from traditional academic libraries to learning commons. The transition includes an ongoing process of evaluation of the libraries' collections with the aim of identifying items in high demand and use to keep, valuable items to preserve, items in nominal use to archive in the Central Library, rare and precious items to preserve in the historical archive of the Technion, at the Central Library, and items to withdraw, according to professional criteria.


Nobel Laureates and notable people


Nobel Laureates

* 2004 Avram Hershko, Chemistry * 2004 Aaron Ciechanover, Chemistry * 2011 Dan Shechtman, Chemistry * 2013 Arieh Warshel, Chemistry


Select faculty

*
Moshe Arens Moshe Arens (; 27 December 1925 – 7 January 2019) was an Israeli aeronautical engineer, researcher, diplomat, and Likud politician. A member of the Knesset between 1973 and 1992 and again from 1999 until 2003, he served as Minister of Defense ...
, professor of aeronautics from 1957 to 1962. *
Eli Biham Eli Biham () is an Israeli cryptographer and cryptanalyst who is a professor at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Computer Science department. From 2008 to 2013, Biham was the dean of the Technion Computer Science department, afte ...
, cryptanalyst and
cryptographer Cryptography, or cryptology (from "hidden, secret"; and ''graphein'', "to write", or '' -logia'', "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adversarial behavior. More gen ...
* Yaakov Dori, President * Baruch Fischer, Professor Emeritus in the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering *
Bernard Friedland Bernard Friedland is an American professor of engineering. He is Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Biography Friedland was born in New York City and graduated from Brookly ...
, electrical engineer, Lady Davis Visiting Professor and winner of the 1982 Rufus Oldenburger Medal * Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover, recipients of the 2004
Nobel Prize in chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry () is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outst ...
for the discovery of
ubiquitin Ubiquitin is a small (8.6  kDa) regulatory protein found in most tissues of eukaryotic organisms, i.e., it is found ''ubiquitously''. It was discovered in 1975 by Gideon Goldstein and further characterized throughout the late 1970s and 19 ...
-mediated protein degradation * Amos Horev, former president, former chairman of Rafael; member of the Israeli Turkel Commission of Inquiry into the Gaza flotilla raid * Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv, developers of the Lempel-Ziv (LZW) compression algorithm * Liviu Librescu, hero during the
Virginia Tech shooting The Virginia Tech shooting was a spree killer, spree shooting that occurred on Monday, April 16, 2007, comprising two attacks on the campus of the Virginia Tech, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksbu ...
* Marcelle Machluf, biotechnology and food engineering * Shlomo Moran, computer scientist * Yehudit Naot, scientist and politician, Israeli Minister of the Environment * Eliahu Nissim (born 1933), Professor of Aeronautical Engineering; President of the
Open University of Israel The Open University of Israel (, ''Ha-Universita ha-Ptuha'') is a distance education, distance-education university in Israel. It is one of ten public universities in Israel recognized by the Council of Higher Education (CHE). Open University ...
*
Asher Peres Asher Peres (; January 30, 1934 – January 1, 2005) was an Israeli physicist. Peres is best known for his work relating quantum mechanics and information theory. He helped to develop the Peres–Horodecki criterion for quantum entanglement, as w ...
, co-discoverer of
quantum teleportation Quantum teleportation is a technique for transferring quantum information from a sender at one location to a receiver some distance away. While teleportation is commonly portrayed in science fiction as a means to transfer physical objects from on ...
, awarded the 2004 Rothschild Prize in Physics * Anat Rafaeli,
organisational behaviour Organizational behavior or organisational behaviour (see American and British English spelling differences, spelling differences) is the "study of human behavior in organizational settings, the interface between human behavior and the organiza ...
researcher * Nathan Rosen, co-author with
Albert Einstein Albert Einstein (14 March 187918 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics. His mass–energy equivalence f ...
and Boris Podolsky of physics paper about the
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in
quantum mechanics Quantum mechanics is the fundamental physical Scientific theory, theory that describes the behavior of matter and of light; its unusual characteristics typically occur at and below the scale of atoms. Reprinted, Addison-Wesley, 1989, It is ...
* Rachel Shalon, first woman engineer in Israel * Shlomo Shamai, electrical information theorist, winner of the 2011 Shannon Award. * Dan Shechtman, first observer of
quasicrystal A quasiperiodicity, quasiperiodic crystal, or quasicrystal, is a structure that is Order and disorder (physics), ordered but not Bravais lattice, periodic. A quasicrystalline pattern can continuously fill all available space, but it lacks trans ...
s and winner of the 2011
Nobel Prize in chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry () is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outst ...
* Daniel Weihs (born 1942), Aeronautical Engineering professor * Shmuel Zaks, computer scientist and mathematician *
Mario Livio Mario Livio (born June 19, 1945) is an astrophysics, astrophysicist and an author of works that popularize science and mathematics. For 24 years (1991–2015) he was an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates the H ...
, astrophysicist and an author of works that popularize science and mathematics * Assaf Avrahami


Notable alumni

Technion graduates have been estimated to constitute over 70 percent of the founders and managers of high-tech businesses in Israel. 80 percent of Israeli NASDAQ companies were founded and/or are led by Technion graduates, and 74 percent of managers in Israel's electronic industries hold Technion degrees. In the book, ''Technion Nation'', Shlomo Maital, Amnon Frenkel and Ilana Debare document the contribution of Technion alumni in building the modern State of Israel. * Shai Agassi - IT entrepreneur, former Executive Board member of
SAP AG Sap is a fluid transported in the xylem cells (vessel elements or tracheids) or phloem sieve tube elements of a plant. These cells transport water and nutrients throughout the plant. Sap is distinct from latex, resin, or cell sap; it is a sep ...
and founder of Better Place * Saul Amarel - pioneer in
artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...
* Ella Amitay Sadovsky - artist * Ron Arad (pilot), Ron Arad (b. 1958) - Air Force weapon systems officer; classified as missing in action since 1986 * Yaakov Bar-Shalom - academic and electrical engineer * Itzhak Bentov - inventor and author * Moti Bodek (b. 1961) - architect * Andrei Broder - captcha developer, Vice President of Yahoo!, Yahoo, formerly vice president of AltaVista * Shimshon Brokman (b. 1957) - Olympic sailor * Yaron Brook - president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute * Danny Cohen (computer scientist), Danny Cohen - Internet developer * Jonathan Markovitch - Chief rabbi of Kyiv, Ukraine * Chaim Elata - professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and Chairman of the Israel Public Utility Authority for Electricity * Haim Eshed (b. 1933) - retired brigadier general in the Israel Defense Forces, former director of space programs for the Ministry of Defense (Israel), Israel Ministry of Defense and former officer in the Military Intelligence Directorate (Israel), Israeli Military Intelligence. Now professor at the Asher Institute for Space Research at Technion. * Yona Friedman (b. 1923) - architect * Jacob Gil - architect and town planner * Yossi Gross - medical devices innovator and entrepreneur; founding partner of Rainbow Medical * Andi Gutmans - developer of PHP and co-founder of Zend Technologies * Zygmunt Haas - computer scientist, professor at
Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...
; * Abraham H. Haddad - computer scientist * Moty Heiblum (born 1947) — electric engineer and physicist * Daniel Hershkowitz (born 1953) - politician, mathematician, rabbi, and president of Bar-Ilan University * Hossam Haick - scientist and engineer * Aharon Isser - aeronautical engineer * Ram Karmi (b. 1931) - architect * Shaul Ladany - world-record-holding racewalker, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen survivor, Munich Massacre survivor, Professor of Industrial Engineering * Uzi Landau - politician, Minister of Tourism * Daniel M. Lewin - co-founder and CTO of Akamai Technologies, Akamai, holder of two Technion degrees, killed while resisting the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 11, American Airlines Flight in the September 11th attacks, 11 September attacks on the United States. * Yoelle Maarek - Chief Research of AI/IR for the Technology Innovation Institute * Dov Moran - entrepreneur, inventor and investor, best known as the inventor of the USB flash drive * Yuval Ne'eman (1925-2006) - physicist, politician, and President of Tel Aviv University * Eliahu Nissim (born 1933) - Professor of Aeronautical Engineering; President of the
Open University of Israel The Open University of Israel (, ''Ha-Universita ha-Ptuha'') is a distance education, distance-education university in Israel. It is one of ten public universities in Israel recognized by the Council of Higher Education (CHE). Open University ...
* Neri Oxman - architect and designer who teaches at MIT, known for her work in environmental design and digital morphogenesis * Guillermo Sapiro - contributor to Adobe Systems, Adobe software including Photoshop and After Effects. Also one of the people who originally developed the Lossless JPEG#LOCO-I algorithm, LOCO-I Lossless Image Compression Algorithm which is used in Mars Rovers' ICER (file format), ICER image file format. * Amos Shapira - former president of El Al Airlines, Cellcom (Israel), Cellcom, and the
University of Haifa The University of Haifa (, ) is a public research university located on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. Founded in 1963 as a branch of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Haifa received full academic accreditation as an inde ...
* Johny Srouji - senior vice president of hardware technologies at Apple Inc. reporting to CEO Tim Cook * Zehev Tadmor (born 1937) - chemical engineer and president of the Technion * Dov Frohman (born 1939) - electrical engineer and former vice president of
Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and Delaware General Corporation Law, incorporated in Delaware. Intel designs, manufactures, and sells computer compo ...
that has invented EPROM * Yossi Vardi - For over 40 years he has founded and helped build over 60 high-tech companies in a variety of fields, among them software, energy, Internet, mobile, electro-optics and water technology. * Arieh Warshel - chemist known for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems, and the winner of the 2013
Nobel Prize in Chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry () is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outst ...
* Daniel Zajfman (born 1959) - physicist; president of the Weizmann Institute *Shlomo Zilberstein - computer scientist known for his contributions to
artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...
, as well as a professor and associate dean at the University of Massachusetts Amherst * Yehuda and Zohar Zisapel - co-founders of the RAD Group, "fathers" of Israel's hi-tech industry * Eli Ben-Sasson - cofounder of StarkWare Industries, former prof. in the Technion.


See also

* List of universities in Israel * Science and technology in Israel *Education in Israel


Notes


References


External links


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