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36 unusual facts about University of Manchester


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.

Anthony Trickett

Trickett practised in several hospitals in Manchester between 1964 and 1966, then demonstrating Anatomy at University of Manchester between 1966 and 1967.

Archibald Hill

Hill returned to Cambridge in 1919 before taking the chair in physiology at the Victoria University of Manchester in 1920.

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.

Claude Wardlaw

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

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 H. Valentine

In 1966 he was appointed as Harrison Professor of Botany in the University of Manchester.

Dennis Sharp

In the following year he was Lecturer at the School of Architecture, University of Manchester (1964–1968).

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.

George Bellairs

Harold Blundell's personal papers are held by the John Rylands Library at the University of Manchester, England.

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.

Hugh Hale Bellot

He became senior lecturer in 1926 and in 1927 move to the University of Manchester as Reader in Modern History.

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.

Johannes Poeppel

In 1947-49, he studied at the Pedagogic Institute in Celle, including a semester at the University of Manchester.

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.

Lionel Charles Knights

He was an English lecturer at the University of Manchester in 1933, then Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield in 1947 and the Winterstoke Professor of English at University of Bristol in 1953.

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.

Manchester College

Victoria University of Manchester, originally Owens College and for much of its history known simply as "Manchester University".

Maurice Samuel

Born in Măcin, Tulcea County, Romania, to Isaac Samuel and Fanny Acker, Maurice moved to Paris with his family at the age of five and about a year later to Victoria University.

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.

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.

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.

Reginald W. James

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

Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis

The Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis is one of the professors in the University of Manchester, England, formerly in the Faculty of Theology and now in the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures.

Schuster Laboratory

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

Siegfried Herford

Siegfried enrolled at the University of Manchester in 1909, in the School of Engineering, and dabbled at rock climbing for a year or so.

Sir Harry Platt, 1st Baronet

He entered the Victoria University of Manchester to study medicine and qualified in 1909 from both Victoria and London Universities.

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.

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.

University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology

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

Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury

It was with the intention of running this business that his son Sukumar Ray spent a few years at the University of Manchester's printing technology department.

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.


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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.