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unusual facts about School of Mathematics, University of Manchester


University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology

Some, such as the Alan Turing Building, house merged departments such as the School of Mathematics.


Achilles Papapetrou

From 1948 on, he worked at the University of Manchester where he was a colleague of Leon Rosenfeld and worked on the equations of motion of GR, as well as the equations of motion of particles with spin in GR.

Actuarial credentialing and exams

At the undergraduate level the only locally accredited programmes are currently at University of Manchester, University College Dublin, Queen's University Belfast, Heriot-Watt University, University of Edinburgh, the London School of Economics, University of Southampton, City University, London and the University of Kent.

Adolphus William Ward

In 1866 he was appointed professor of history and English literature in Owens College, Manchester, and was principal from 1890 to 1897, when he retired.

Alberto Cavallari

In 1984, he became a member of the European Institute for the Media, first at the University of Manchester, and then at the University of Düsseldorf.

Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs

Writing a review of Claude Lecouteux's book The Return of the Dead for the journal Preternature, Stephen Gordon of the University of Manchester made reference to Reynold's book, noting that he "devotes considerable attention to the relationship between the revenant narratives and unusual burial practices", in this way providing supporting evidence for many of Lecouteux's claims.

Arnold Wolfendale

During his career he held academic posts at the universities of University of Manchester (1951–6), Durham University (1956–92), the University of Ceylon and the University of Hong Kong, and was head of department at Durham where he remains an emeritus professor.

Astronomical radio source

Rotating radio transients (RRATs) are a type of neutron stars discovered in 2006 by a team led by Maura McLaughlin from the Jodrell Bank Observatory at the University of Manchester in the UK.

Capel Dewi, Aberystwyth

One of the more unusual features of the hamlet is the nearby LIDAR system, which is run by the University of Manchester.

Carbon Trust

Organisations that have received the standard included Morrisons supermarkets, B&Q, Dfid, University of Central Lancashire, Thames Water, Trinity Mirror, BT Group, Kyocera, Barclays Capital, Hewlett Packard, University of Manchester, Citrica, Ricoh, Diageo, O2, Tesco, Mothercare, Moss Plastics, Manchester United, Serco, Linklaters, Bolton Wanderers Football Club, British Land and Motorola.

Caroline Wilkinson

Wilkinson holds a PhD in Facial Anthropology from the University of Manchester (2000) and first became known to television audiences as a result of her regular appearances in the BBC series Meet the Ancestors.

Claude Wardlaw

In 1940, Wardlaw returned to Britain to serve as Professor of Cryptogamic Botany at the University of Manchester.

Clostridium acetobutylicum

Clostridium acetobutylicum, ATCC 824, is a commercially valuable bacterium sometimes called the "Weizmann Organism", after Jewish-Russian-born Chaim Weizmann, then senior lecturer at the University of Manchester, England, used them in 1916 as a bio-chemical tool to produce at the same time, jointly, acetone, ethanol, and butanol from starch.

Compiler-compiler

The first compiler-compiler to use that name was written by Tony Brooker in 1960 and was used to create compilers for the Atlas computer at the University of Manchester, including the Atlas Autocode compiler.

Conall Murtagh

He holds a 2:1 degree in Physiology from the University of Manchester and has the Masters of Science (Sports Science with Physiology) (March 2013).

David Beetham

Beetham worked at the University of Manchester until April 1980 when he left to take up the Professorship of Politics (succeeding Ralph Miliband) at the University of Leeds.

David Clary

He undertook post-doctoral research at IBM in San Jose, California, and at the University of Manchester.

Deeside College

From 1974, the North East Wales Institute expanded under the vision of another prominent educator, Professor Glyn O Phillips, who took the institution forward and made it into a significant research based and practice based technological organisation which had a financial turnover equalling a great many universities close by, like Liverpool, Manchester and Bangor.

Design Wales

Other partners were Design Flanders, The Design Centre of the Czech Republic, Design Centre Rhone-Alps, Experimental Centre for Furniture and Furnishing (Italy), Danish Design Centre, and the University of Manchester (ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition - CRIC).

EDIF

Later Professor Hilary Kahn (1943-2007) from the University of Manchester joined the team and led the development from version EDIF 2 0 0 till the final version 4 0 0.

Edmund Garratt Gardner

The following year he became the first holder of the Serena Professorship in Italian Studies at the University of Manchester.

Geoffrey Beattie

This research was funded by Tesco through the Sustainable Consumption Institute at the University of Manchester.

Geoffrey Jefferson

By 1934, he was a neurosurgeon at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, becoming the UK's first professor of neurosurgery at the University of Manchester five years later.

Günther K.H. Zupanc

Günther Zupanc was Research Assistant and Research Scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California (1987–92), Junior Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany (1992–97), Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate Professor) at the University of Manchester, U.K. (1997–2002), and Professor at the International University Bremen (now Jacobs University Bremen) (2002–09).

Herchel Smith

His independent research started in Oxford University (1952–1956) but reached its full fruition whilst he was a lecturer in organic chemistry at the University of Manchester.

In the Mood

In 1951 a Ferranti Mark 1 computer at the University of Manchester played "In the Mood", one of the first songs to be played by a computer, and the oldest known recording of digitally generated music.

Jackie Maxwell

After earning an Honours degree in Drama at the University of Manchester, England, Maxwell accompanied her husband, Benedict Campbell, back to his native Canada, where she began to work as a director at the National Arts Centre.

John Pickstone

John Pickstone is currently Wellcome Research Professor in the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, in the Faculty of Life Sciences of the University of Manchester.

Jonathan Reynolds

Reynolds studied Politics and Modern History at the University of Manchester and BPP Law School (Manchester).

Julian Thomas

Thomas has been vice president of the Royal Anthropological Institute since 2007, is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, has been professor of archaeology at the University of Manchester since 2000, and is former secretary of the World Archaeological Congress.

Katrina Honeyman

Honeyman held temporary posts at the universities of Aberdeen and Manchester before taking up an appointment in the School of Economic and Social Studies at the University of Leeds in 1979.

Leonard Behrens

Back in Britain, he became President of the Manchester Liberal Federation, and was an official of a large number of local bodies, including the Manchester Statistical Society, the Design and Industries Association, the Royal Manchester College of Music, the Hallé Concert Society and the University of Manchester.

Louis Matheson

In 1951, after only a few years in Australia, he returned to the UK to accept the Beyer Chair in Engineering at the University of Manchester.

Master of Research

Although a relatively new degree, research Master's degrees are increasingly popular with a number of the Russell Group Universities such as Imperial College London, University of Manchester, University of Liverpool and the University of London as well as in universities with significant art and design departments such as the Faculty of Arts (University of Brighton) and University of the Arts London.

Michael Flinn

After the end of the war, Flinn took a history degree at the University of Manchester before spending two years as a grammar school teacher while writing a postgraduate dissertation in his spare time.

Moshe Shokeid

He attended the University of Manchester in England where he studied under Max Gluckman and received his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology in 1968.

Nathan D'Laryea

He joined Rochdale but made only eight appearances in two seasons and he quit professional football to study for a degree in English Language at the University of Manchester.

National Nuclear Laboratory

On 23 March 2009 it was announced by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) that a consortium made up of Serco, Battelle and the University of Manchester had been selected as the new management contractors for the NNL.

Oak House

Oak House is the largest Halls of Residence in the Fallowfield Campus and the second largest of all the residences owned by The University of Manchester.

OpenGALEN

OpenGALEN has been set up as a not-for-profit Dutch Foundation by the universities of Manchester and Nijmegen to make the results of the GALEN projects available to the world.

Predictive buying

It wasn’t until 1951 that the first AI programs were actually written by Christopher Strachey and Dietrich Prinz to run on the Ferranti Mark1 machine of the University of Manchester to play checkers and chess.

Prince Henry's High School

Prof John Turner, Vice-Chancellor from 1982-4 of the University of Botswana, and Sarah Fielden Professor of Education from 1985-94 at the University of Manchester (taught from 1951-3)

Reginald W. James

With the coming of peace, James turned to academia at the University of Manchester.

Schuster Laboratory

The Schuster Laboratory (also known as the Schuster Building) houses the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.

Singapore Institute of Management

SIM is also the only institute offering the degree programmes of the University at Buffalo SUNY, University of Birmingham and the University of Manchester in Asia.

Sophie Raworth

After completing a degree in French and German at the University of Manchester, Raworth spent a year teaching English to teenagers in Toulouse before studying for a postgraduate course in broadcasting and journalism at City University London.

Soren Holm

He holds a chair in bioethics at the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, part of the School of Law at the University of Manchester in Great Britain and the University of Oslo.

Square Kilometre Array

In April 2011, Jodrell Bank Observatory (of the University of Manchester) in Cheshire, England was announced as the location of the headquarters office for the project.

St. Anselm Hall

St Anselm Hall (or "Slem's" as it is known to most students as a result of a misprint or 'typo' that appeared in The Manchester Guardian) is a hall of residence in the Victoria Park campus of the University of Manchester.


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