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 |
