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unusual facts about The University of Manchester



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.

St Gabriel's Hall

St Gabriel's Hall (commonly known as "Gabs") is a small and friendly all-female hall of residence belonging to The University of Manchester.


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Autocode

Brooker also developed an autocode for the Ferranti Mercury in the 1950s in conjunction with the University of Manchester.

Jim Miles

James John Miles (born 1959), Professor of Computer engineering at the University of Manchester

John Brooke

He studied history at the University of Manchester under Lewis Namier:, and in 1951 became Namier's principal assistant for the History of Parliament.

Mutlaq Hamid Al-Otaibi

Al-Thubeiti was born Mutlaq Hamid Al-Thubeiti Al-Otaibi in Taif On September 9, 1937, in 1965 he graduated from the faculty of Sharia Islamic Studies in Mecca, in 1967 he traveled to the United Kingdom where he studied English at the university of manchester, He returned to Saudi Arabia in 1970s where he got many jobs including member of the faculty of sharia at the University of Umm al-Qura in Mecca.

Wright Robinson Hall

It was a flagship hall of UMIST and became a University of Manchester hall when UMIST and Victoria University of Manchester merged into The University of Manchester.

Yalden

Derek Yalden, (b. 1940) Zoologist; honorary Reader at the University of Manchester