University Of Manchester
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| University of Manchester | |
|---|---|
| Currency | Cognitio, sapientia, Humanitas |
| Original Name | University of Manchester |
| Information | |
| Foundation | 2004 merger 1851 Victoria University of Manchester 1824 UMIST |
| Type | Public University |
| Budget | 127 million (2009) |
| Location | |
| City | Manchester |
| Country |  England |
| Direction | |
| President | Tom Bloxham |
| Director | Dame Nancy Rothwell |
| Key figures | |
| Staff | 10407 |
| Students | 39165 |
| Undergraduates | 27310 |
| Postgraduates | 11850 |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Affiliates | Red brick university , Russell Group , N8 Group, NWUA |
| Website | www.manchester.ac.uk/ |
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The University of Manchester is a university English based in Manchester. It was officially founded on October 1, 2004 through the merger of Victoria University of Manchester (Victoria University of Manchester 1851, known as the University of Manchester before the merger) and the Institute of Science and Technology University of Manchester (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology 1824). The university was formally inaugurated on 22 October 2004 by Queen Elizabeth II when she gave the royal charter. It is part of Red brick university.
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History of the University
The early origins of this new university date back to 1824 when was founded the Institute of Mechanics of Manchester (Manchester Mechanics' Institute) which later became the UMIST. The Victoria University was in turn founded as Owens College in 1851. The new University of Manchester has the largest number of students across the UK if we do not consider the University of London as one and the same university. There is more material taught in any other British university. One ambition of this new university is to become in 2015 one of the top 25 research universities in the world, according to traditional academic criteria (See Vision for the Future ).
Faculty in 4 sectors
- Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences:
- School of Medicine, University of Manchester
- Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences:
- Faculty of Humanities:
- Faculty of Life Sciences:
Other areas
- Jodrell Bank Observatory
- The JRules (John Rylands University Library)
- Whitworth Art Gallery
- Manchester University Press
- Contact Theatre
- Chancellors Hotel & Conference Center
23 Nobel Prizes
Alumni or faculty of all three universities:
- Chemistry
- Ernest Rutherford in 1908
- Arthur Harden in 1929
- Walter Haworth in 1937
- Robert Robinson in 1947
- Alexander Todd in 1957
- Melvin Calvin in 1961
- John Charles Polanyi in 1986
- Michael Smith in 1993
- Physics
- Joseph John Thomson in 1906
- William Lawrence Bragg in 1915
- Niels Bohr in 1922
- Charles Thomson Rees Wilson in 1927
- James Chadwick in 1935
- George de Hevesy in 1943
- Patrick Blackett in 1948
- John Cockcroft in 1951
- Hans Bethe in 1967
- Nevill Francis Mott in 1977
- Psychology & Medicine
- Archibald Vivian Hill in 1922
- John Sulston in 2002
- Economy
- John Hicks in 1974
- Arthur Lewis in 1979
- Joseph Stiglitz in 2001
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