The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (הטכניון - מכון טכנולוגי לישראל) is a university in Haifa, Israel. Founded in 1924, it is the oldest university in Israel. While the Technion focuses on science and engineering, architecture and medicine are also taught. Jump to: navigation, search A professor giving a lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. ... Haifa (Hebrew חֵיפָה Ḥefa, Ḥeyfa; Arabic حَيْفَا Ḥayfā) is the third-largest city in Israel, with a population close to 300,000. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The Technion offers both undergraduate and graduate studies in a wide range of fields, including:

• Electrical Engineering
• Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Food Engineering and Biotechnology
• Agricultural Engineering
• Aeronautical and Space Engineering
• Industrial Engineering and Management
• Computer Science
• Mathematics
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Biology
• Architecture and Town planning
• Education in Technology and Science
• Medicine
• Materials Engineering

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Early history

The Technion was conceived in the early 1900s by the German-Jewish fund Ezrah, as a school of engineering and sciences, and the only higher learning institution, in then Ottoman Palestine. The cornerstone was laid in 1912, but studies began only 12 years later, following an intense debate over the language of instruction. Ezrah deemed the then-developing Modern Hebrew inappropriate for scientific instruction, and demanded that German be used instead. However, in the aftermath of World War I and the decline of Germany's influence as a European superpower, Hebrew was adopted. The Modern Hebrew language is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. ... Jump to: navigation, search World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ...

The Technion was opened in 1924, although the official opening ceremony took place in 1925.

The first class amounted to 16 students, majoring in civil engineering and architecture.

During the 1930s, the Technion absorbed many Jewish scientists fleeing Nazi Germany and its neighboring countries.

Until the opening of the school of engineering in the Ben Gurion University in the early 1970s, the Technion was the only institution in the country offering engineering degrees. The Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב) was founded in 1969, in Beer Sheva, Israel. ...

Famous graduates

Uzia Galil - The founding father of the Israeli science-based industries. Zohar Zisapel - BSEE 1970, founder of the RAD corporations.

Distinguished faculty

• Computer Science Professor Emeritus Abraham Lempel and Electrical Engineering Professor Emeritus Yaacov Ziv, developers of the Lempel-Ziv compression algorithm
• Professor Avram Hershko and Professor Aaron Ciechanover, recipients of the 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.
• Professor Nathan Rosen (d. December 18, 1995), co-author (with Albert Einstein and Boris Podolsky) of a famous 1935 physics paper about the EPR paradox in quantum mechanics
• Professor Dan Shechtman, first observer of quasicrystals

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Miscellaneous facts

• The Technion is often compared to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and has contributed to a large number of successful Israeli technical exports and businesses.

• A group of Technion graduates have been maintaining PHP, open-source middleware technology that powers over half the Apache-based web servers in use worldwide, including the one serving the Wikipedia web site, since version 3. They also started Zend Technologies, a leading web infrastructure software company based in Israel.

• Beside academic studies and research, the Technion offers many after-school and summer enrichment courses for interested youth. These courses range from introductory electronics and computer programming to aerospace, architecture, biology, chemistry and physics.

• The Technion awarded the first PhD in the newly formed State of Israel to Eliezer Mishkin in electrical engineering. It was not, however, the first PhD awarded by the Technion.

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External links

• Technion website