The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Hebrew: הטכניון – מכון טכנולוגי לישראל) is an internationally acclaimed institute of technology in Haifa, Israel. Originally called the Technicum, it was founded in 1912. The emphasis was on natural sciences, engineering and architecture, with a school of medicine added later. Two Nobel laureates teach there and they are Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover who won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry f...
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The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Hebrew: הטכניון – מכון טכנולוגי לישראל) is an internationally acclaimed institute of technology in Haifa, Israel. Originally called the Technicum, it was founded in 1912. The emphasis was on natural sciences, engineering and architecture, with a school of medicine added later. Two Nobel laureates teach there and they are Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover who won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the biological system responsible for disassembling protein in the cell. The Technion's Faculty of Electrical Engineering has been ranked among the top fifteen electrical engineering departments in the world. Its engineering/technology and computer sciences faculties have been ranked among the top forty in the world.
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 — other than the Bezalel...
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