''' HISTORY IN BRIEF '''<<BR>><<BR>>
||1946||Decision taken by the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts to build a Physics Institute||
||1949||Research connected to the peaceful use of atomic energy started, financed by the Federal Government||
||1952||Institute named the Jožef Stefan Physics Institute and moved to new laboratories on its present site||
||1954||The betatron and an electron microscope installed as the Institute's first major equipment ||
||1956||Van de Graaff accelerator, constructed at the Institute, started operation||
||1958||Institute reorganised and new fields of activity defined: nuclear physics, solid state physics, chemistry, and radiobiology||
||1959||Institute renamed the Jožef Stefan Nuclear Institute. The major source of income was provided by the Yugoslav Atomic Energy Commission||
||1962||The first computer for research, ZUSE Z 23, installed||
||1962||One of the first compounds of a noble gas synthesised at the Institute||
||1966||Nuclear research reactor TRIGA starts operation||
||1968||The Republic of Slovenia becomes Institute's dominant source of research funding||
||1969||Nuclear omitted from the Institute's name||
||1970||University of Ljubljana becomes a co-founder of the Institute together with the federal Executive Council ||
||1971||New unit INOVA established with the aim of applying the Institute's expertise and output to productive use in the national economy ||
||1972||New computer Cyber 72 purchased, and the Republic Computer Centre established as an independent unit of the Institute||
||1974||Collaboration with the international centre CERN in the field of high energy physics started||
||1974||The group SEPO for evaluating environmental interventions is established||
||1979||Contract defining co-operation between the Institute and the Nuclear Power Plant Krško signed||
||1979||First robot in Slovenia constructed, named Goro-1 ||
||1982||Ecological Laboratory with Mobile Unit established as a special unit of the Slovenian Civil Protection Organisation||
||1983||Stefin, a cysteine proteinase inhibitor named after J. Stefan, was isolated and its primary structure determinated||
||1985|| "2000 New Young Researchers project" established by the Slovenian Research Council ||
||1986||Centre for Hard Coatings established by the Institute and the firm SMELT||
||1987||INEA established by the Institute as an independent company, to promote technology transfer in the fields of cybernetics and energy management||
||1988||Milan Čopič Nuclear Training Centre established||
||1990||The first Slovenian supercomputer CONVEX at the Institute||
||1990||Construction of new laboratories completed ||
||1992||The Institute reconstructed by the Slovenian Government as a public research institution||
||1992||J. Stefan Technology Park founded, later become the Ljubljana Technology Park ||
||1995||The Institute is a co-founder of the international postgraduate school for environmental sciences, the Polytechnic Nova Gorica||
||1995||Research institutes in Velenje, ERICo, and in Valdoltra established by the Institute||
||1997||3.5 MeV electrostatic accelerator Tendetron installed||
||2003||The Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School established||
||2005||Institute coordinated four national centres of excellence||