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20 unusual facts about Uppsala University


Anders Hallberg

Anders Hallberg (born 29 April 1945 in Vetlanda) is a Swedish chemist who was rector magnificus of Uppsala University from July 2006 until December 2011.

He was appointed professor of Medicinal chemistry at Uppsala University in 1990, became Head of the Department of Organic Pharmaceutical Chemistry in 1991 and served as Dean for Research and Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy until he was appointed Rector magnificus and president of Uppsala University in 2006.

Douglas Davies

He then achieved both Master and Doctor of Letters at Oxford University and has recently been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Theology from Uppsala University, Sweden.

Electrochromism

The world leading institutions on NiO efforts include National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Uppsala University.

Erwin Gabathuler

He received two honorary degrees, a Doctorate from Uppsala University, Sweden in 1982, and a D.Sc.

God helmet

In December 2004 Nature reported that a group of Swedish researchers led by Pehr Granqvist, a psychologist at Uppsala University in Sweden, had attempted to replicate Persinger's experiments under double-blind conditions, and were not able to reproduce the effect.

Gunnar Malmquist

He continued to work at the observatory in Lund until 1929, was observator at the Stockholm Observatory and taught at the Stockholm University College 1930-1939, and was Professor of Astronomy at the Uppsala University from 1939 until his retirement in 1959.

Hashim Ahmadzadeh

Afterwards he left Iran and settled in Sweden, where he received his Bachelor degree in political sciences in Uppsala University.

Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart

Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742, Holderbank, Aargau – 1795) was a German botanist, a pupil of Carolus Linnaeus at Uppsala University, and later director of the Botanical Garden of Hannover, where he produced several major botanical works between 1780–1793.

Johan Gustaf Acrel

Johan Gustaf Acrel (May 15, 1741 – February 18, 1801) was a Swedish physician and Professor of Medicine at Uppsala University.

Martin Hengel

He received honorary doctorates from the universities of Uppsala, St Andrews, Cambridge, Durham, Strasbourg and Dublin.

Petrus Astronomus

He first appears by name as a lecturer in astronomy at Uppsala University, where between 1508 and 1509 he conducted a series of lectures.

Pittsburgh compound B

The first PiB study of a human subject with a clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease was conducted in February, 2002, at Uppsala University.

The University of Pittsburgh team partnered with a team of researchers from Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden, to conduct the first trials of this new agent in human research subjects.

Sasson Somekh

He was a visiting professor at Princeton University, St Antony's College, Oxford, Annenberg Research Institute, NYU and Uppsala University.

Sudipta Sengupta

In 1977 she joined the Institute of Geology of Uppsala University, Sweden as a docent for six months and thereafter carried out research as a visiting scientist in connection with the International Geodynamics Project which was supervised by Professor Hans Ramberg.

Sven Hörstadius

He was appointed professor of zoology at Uppsala University 1942, where he remained until his retirement in 1964, but continued to lecture as an emeritus.

Upsala College

The name Upsala was chosen to honour both the historic Uppsala University in Sweden and the Meeting of Uppsala.

Vic Katch

He also played college basketball at Cal State Northridge and Uppsala University in Sweden while studying international relations.

XSB

XSB is the name of a dialect of the Prolog programming language and its implementation developed at Stony Brook University in collaboration with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the New University of Lisbon, Uppsala University and software vendor XSB, Inc.


Arne Beurling

Arne Carl-August Beurling (3 February 1905 – 20 November 1986) was a Swedish mathematician and professor of mathematics at Uppsala University (1937–1954) and later at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

Bengt Danielsson

His doctoral thesis on the Tuamotus island chain, submitted to Uppsala University in 1955, was published the following year as Work and Life on Raroia.

Bioclipse

Bioclipse is developed as a collaboration between the Proteochemometric Group, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Uppsala University, Sweden, the Christoph Steinbeck Group at the European Bioinformatics Institute, and the Analytical Chemistry Department at Leiden University, but also includes extensions developed at other academic institutes, including the Karolinska Institutet and Maastricht University.

Codex Argenteus

In the 1660s, it was bought and taken to Uppsala University by count Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, who also provided its present lavishly decorated binding.

Emanuel Tov

Served as visiting Professor at the Universities of Oxford, Uppsala, Doshisha (Kyoto), Macquarie and Sydney (Australia), Stellenbosch (South Africa), Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam), University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), and the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome).

Erik Axel Karlfeldt

He studied at Uppsala University, simultaneously supporting himself by teaching school in several places, including Djursholms samskola in the Stockholm suburb of Djursholm and at a school for adults.

Fredrik Magnus Piper

He studied mathematics and hydraulics at Uppsala University between 1764 and 1766, after which he went on to specialise in engineering in a special school in Trollhättan and at the naval base in Karlskrona.

Funbo Runestones

The runestone designated as U 937 in the Rundata catalog was found in Uppsala in 1875 in the walls of a Franciscan monastery between the streets of St. Persgatan and Klostergatan, and is currently located at a park in Uppsala University.

Institute for Security and Development Policy

Its origins lie in the Silk Road Studies Program, founded at Uppsala University in 2002 by Svante Cornell and Niklas Swanström, and which focused on the geographical area covering Eurasia from the Black Sea to the Pacific Ocean.

Johannes Matthiae Gothus

John Matthiae Gothus (born December 29, 1592 in Västra Husby - died February 18, 1670 in Stockholm) was an Uppsala University professor, the rector of the Collegium illustrious in Stockholm (1626–1629) and the most eminent teacher in Sweden during the seventeenth century.

Kåre Bremer

Following this Bremer was installed as Professor of Systematic Botany at Uppsala University in 1989, where he also became head of the department from 1992 to 1999, and Dean of Biology from 1993-1999.

Knut Lundmark

Lundmark received his astronomical education at the observatory of Uppsala University.

Per Alström

Alström works at the data bank (Artdatabanken) at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, but has previously worked at Uppsala University and the Swedish Museum of Natural History.

Radiosurgery

The device was invented at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1967 by Lars Leksell, Ladislau Steiner, a Romanian born neurosurgeon, and Börje Larsson, a radiobiologist from Sweden's Uppsala University.

Rudbeckia

The name was given by Carolus Linnaeus in honor of his teacher at Uppsala University, Professor Olof Rudbeck the Younger (1660-1740), and his father, Professor Olof Rudbeck the Elder (1630-1702), both of whom were botanists.

Stenmark

Mikael Stenmark, Head of Department and Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Department of Theology, Uppsala University, Sweden

Student orientation

This is most extensive at the technical faculties and at the student nation communities of Uppsala and Lund.

Nollning is often thought to be most advanced and organized at the Uppsala Institute of Technology at Uppsala University and Linköping Institute of Technology at Linköping University.

Upsala Simsällskap

The society was founded by the mathematician and astronomer Jöns Svanberg (1771–1851) together with some colleagues at the university as a way to remedy the general lack of swimming skills.