Technion

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.

Distinguished faculty

• Computer Science Professor Emeritus Abraham Lempel and Electrical Engineering Professor Emeritus Yaacov Ziv - developer 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 (March 22, 1909 - December 18, 1995), a physicist, was co-author (with Albert Einstein and Boris Podolsky) of a famous 1935 physics paper about the EPR paradox in quantum mechanics
• Professor Dan Shechtman, member of the Materials Engineering faculty, who was the first to experimentally observe Quasicrystals