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33 unusual facts about University College London


Abigail Irozuru

After establishing herself as an elite junior athlete Irozuru moved to London to study for a law degree at the prestigious University College London where she firstly worked with UK Athletics head long and triple jumps coach John Herbert who also coached Jade Johnson to the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Abrictosaurus

Both specimens of Abrictosaurus are housed in the collection of University College London.

Anglo-Australian Telescope

The University College London Échelle Spectrograph (UCLES), a high-resolution optical spectrograph which has been used to discover many extrasolar planets.

Bonney Bowl

In association with the names of glacial geologists grouped in this area, it was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1971 after the Reverend Thomas George Bonney (1833–1923), English geologist who worked on the origin of cirques; he was Professor of Geology, University College London, 1877–1901.

Boxgrove

Parts of the site complex were excavated between 1983 and 1996 by a team led by Mark Roberts of University College London.

Connaught Hall, London

It is an intercollegiate hall, and as such provides accommodation for full-time students at constituent colleges and institutions of the University of London, including King's College London, University College London, Queen Mary, the London School of Economics and the School of Oriental and African Studies and others.

Corneille Heymans

After graduation Heymans worked at the Collège de France (under Prof. E. Gley), the University of Lausanne (under Prof. M. Arthus), the University of Vienna (under Prof. H. H. Meyer), University College London (under Prof. E. H. Starling) and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (under Prof. C. F. Wiggers).

Ernest Symons

He was educated at the Stationers' Company School and University College London (UCL), serving on the UCL Council in 1975 and becoming a fellow of UCL in 1979.

Graph coloring

Guthrie’s brother passed on the question to his mathematics teacher Augustus de Morgan at University College, who mentioned it in a letter to William Hamilton in 1852.

History of alternative medicine

In England mesmerism was championed by John Elliotson, Professor of Practical Medicine at University College London and the founder and president of the London Phrenological Society.

International Hall, London

It is an intercollegiate hall, and as such provides accommodation for full-time students at institutions such as University College London, King's College London, Queen Mary, School of Oriental and African Studies, the London School of Economics, and other such constituent colleges of the University of London.

Joseph Henry Woodger

Woodger was born at Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, and studied at University College London from 1911 until 1922, except for a period serving in the First World War.

Lycée Rochambeau

As of the 2012-2013 school year, students have gone on to attend McGill University, the University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, Sciences Po Paris, Stanford University, USC, University of Michigan, University College London, various faculties at the University of Paris and elsewhere.

Madan Lal Dhingra

In 1906, Madan Lal departed for England to enroll at University College, London, to study Mechanical Engineering.

Magnesium chromate

In 2011, an undechydrate (containing 11 molecules of water) of this compound was discovered by scientists at the University College London.

Marie Thérèse Metoyer

Other possible origins of the name Coincoin, together with the names of her siblings discovered by Elizabeth Shown Mills, are being studied by the Africanist Kevin MacDonald at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

Men and Women's Club

It met from 1885 to 1889, and the records of its meetings are now part of the Pearson collection at University College London.

Mullite

In 2006 researchers at University College London and Cardiff University discovered that potters in the Hesse region of Germany since the late Middle Ages had used mullite in the manufacture of a type of crucible (known as Hessian crucibles), that were renowned for enabling alchemists to heat their crucibles to very high temperatures.

Nicolas Coldstream

He lectured at Bedford College, rising to become Professor of Aegean Archaeology, and then lectured at University College London as Yates Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology.

Open access mandate

Among the universities that have adopted open-access mandates for faculty are Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University College London, Queensland University of Technology, University of Minho, University of Liege and ETH Zürich.

Peter Ucko

He served as Director of the Institute of Archaeology at University College London (UCL), and was a Fellow of both the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Society of Antiquaries.

Plaster cast

Examples of these by John Flaxman may be found in the central rotunda of the library at University College London, and elsewhere in the University's collections.

Regional Planetary Image Facility

The first RPIF to be established outside of the U.S. was in England in 1980 at the University College London (UCL), and since then RPIFs have been set up in Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, and Japan.

Robert Arthur Humphreys

He was appointed assistant lecturer in American history at University College London (UCL) in 1934.

Sanger Brown

In his experiments with E. A. Schäfer at University College, London, in 1886–1887, he was the first to demonstrate conclusively that in monkeys the centre of vision is located in the occipital lobe.

Seona Dancing

In 1982, in his final year as a student at UCL, Ricky Gervais and his friend Bill Macrae formed Seona Dancing, with Macrae writing the tunes and playing keyboards, and Gervais writing and singing the lyrics.

Statistical parametric mapping

It may also refer to a specific piece of software created by the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience (part of University College London) to carry out such analyses.

Stevie Cameron

Born in Belleville, Ontario, Stevie Cameron has an honours B.A. in English from the University of British Columbia, worked for the Department of External Affairs in Ottawa in the 1960s, attended graduate school at University College London, England, for three years, and taught English literature at Trent University.

Sukey

Sukey was founded by Sam Carlisle and Sam Gaus during the occupation by students at University College London.

V.S. Summerhayes

Summerhayes was born on 21 February 1897 at Street, Somerset and he was educated at Sexey's School, Bruton and University College, London.

Weak central coherence theory

Uta Frith, of University College London, first advanced the weak central coherence theory in the late 1980s.

Wilfrid Rall

In 1954 he spent a sabbatical year at University College London in the Biophysics Department headed by Bernard Katz, and after a final year in Dunedin (where he was Acting Head of Department) he then moved to Bethesda, Maryland and the National Institutes of Health, where he remained until his retirement in 1994.

Wind Erosion on European Light Soils

WEELS was a collaborative project between University College London, the Geological Survey of Lower Saxony (Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Bodenforschung) at the Institute of Soil Technology, Bremen, Lund University, and Wageningen University.


Alexander Perls

While studying as an exchange student at University College London in 1997, Perls worked with the post-rock collective Piano Magic.

Anthony Julius

Julius studied English literature at Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating in 1977 with a first class degree, and completed a Ph.D. in English literature at University College London under the novelist and academic Dan Jacobson.

Arthur Stanley Hirst

Born in Hackney where his father practiced medicine, he was educated at the Merchant Taylor's School, and studied zoology at the University College London.

Autoimmunity

Pioneering work by Noel Rose and Ernst Witebsky in New York, and Roitt and Doniach at University College London provided clear evidence that, at least in terms of antibody-producing B lymphocytes, diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and thyrotoxicosis are associated with loss of immunological tolerance, which is the ability of an individual to ignore "self", while reacting to "non-self".

Bicester Community College

There have been successful Oxbridge applications from the school in the last ten years, and the school has sent students to other top UK universities, including King's College London, the London School of Economics and Political Science, University College London, the University of Warwick, the University of Bristol and the University of Nottingham.

Brain Research Trust

Since its founding in 1971, the Trust has funded research totalling more than £30 million at University College London's Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London.

Carol A. Barnes

Carleton University
postdoctoral training in neurophysiology at Dalhousie University, University of Oslo, and the Cerebral Functions Group at University College London

Ceawlin Thynn, Viscount Weymouth

Ceawlin (pronounced See-aw-lin) Thynn attended Horningsham Primary School and Kingdown Comprehensive School in Warminster, Bedales School in Hampshire, and read economics and philosophy at University College London.

Colin McGinn

He has held teaching posts and professorships at University College London, the University of Oxford, Rutgers University, and the University of Miami.

CONQUEST

CONQUEST is jointly developed at the Department of Physics and Astronomy and London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London in the UK and at the Computational Materials Science Centre, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan.

Foster baronets

He was Provost of University College London between 1907 and 1929 and Vice-Chancellor of the University of London between 1928 and 1930.

G. J. Renier

Gustaaf Johannes Petrus Renier (25 September 1892, Flushing – 1 September 1962, Twickenham) was professor of Dutch History at University College London.

George Henry Ford

George Viner Ellis (1812-1900) succeeded to the Chair of Anatomy at University College London in 1850, and became one of the foremost anatomists of his time.

Georgiana Molloy

John Lindley, Professor of Botany at University College London, for example, described many new species from her collections, including Corymbia calophylla.

HDBuzz

HDBuzz was launched in January 2011 by Huntington's disease researchers Dr Ed Wild (UCL, London) and Dr Jeff Carroll (Western Washington University).

Jnan Chandra Ghosh

He researched problems of photo-chemistry and strong electrolytes in the University College which earned appreciation from leaders of science like Walter Nernst, Max Planck, William Bragg and G. N. Lewis and was cited in Walter Nernst's reputed book "Theoretical Chemistry" (1921) and Lewis and Randall's book "Thermodynamics".

Johnny Lovewisdom

Dr. David Davies of University College London, and Dr. Alexander Leaf of Harvard University, both gerontologists, visited Lovewisdom due to his many articles on the longevity of the Vilcabamban people.

Mark Handforth

Handforth grew up in London, England, and attended Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and the Slade School of Fine Art at University College London.

Morris Moss

He was educated at University College and at age nineteen he travelled to Victoria, by way of Panama and San Francisco, to act as that city's agent of Liebes and Co., well-known fur traders at the time.

Nick Wirth

Wirth attended Sevenoaks School from 1977 to 1984 and has B.Sc(Hons) in Mechanical Engineering (First Class) from University College London and is the youngest-ever Fellow of the Royal Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

Patricio Pouchulu

Born in Buenos Aires, he graduated as an Architect at Universidad de Buenos Aires before moving to London to study with Peter Cook at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, where he got a M.Arch. He was awarded by the British Council and Fondo Nacional de las Artes.

Philip Johnson-Laird

He was educated at Culford School and University College London where he won the Rosa Morison Medal in 1964 and a James Sully Scholarship between 1964–66.

Raman Bedi

Professor Bedi held the Foundational Chair in Transcultural Oral Health at the Eastman Dental Institute, University College London, and was Director of the National Centre for Transcultural Oral Health from 1996-2002.

Richard Hamblyn

In the academic year 2008-09 Hamblyn was writer-in-residence at the University College London Environment Institute, and produced the book Data Soliloquies (Slade Press, 2009, ISBN 9780903305044) with Martin John Callanan who was artist-in-residence for the same year.

Richard Hudson

He worked with Michael Halliday as research assistant on two projects at University College London: on the grammar of scientific English with Rodney Huddleston (1964–1967), and on Linguistics and English Teaching (1967–1970).

Roland Dobbs

After radar research for the Admiralty, 1943-6, he was a research student at University College London, 1946-9 and lecturer in Physics, Queen Mary and Westfield College, 1949-58.

Sciences Po

At the undergraduate level, Sciences Po also offers a dual degree program with the School of General Studies at Columbia University, University College London, Keio University, the Free University of Berlin, and the University of British Columbia.

The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online

University of Cambridge is Director of the project; James Secord of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge and Janet Browne of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London were the principal investigators for the grant.

University of London Observatory

In 1951, UCL took over management of the Observatory from the University of London, and over the next ten years added library, lecture, and laboratory space.