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Before the merger, Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST counted 23 Nobel Prize winners amongst their former staff and students, with two further Nobel laureates being subsequently added. Manchester has traditionally been strong in the sciences; it is where the nuclear nature of the atom was discovered by Ernest Rutherford , and the world ...
This list of Nobel laureates by university affiliation shows the university affiliations of individual winners of the Nobel Prize since 1901 and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences since 1969. The affiliations are those at the time of the Nobel Prize announcement.
Andre Geim. Sir Andre Konstantin Geim FRS HonFRSC HonFInstP ( Russian: Андре́й Константи́нович Гейм; born 21 October 1958; IPA1 pronunciation: ɑːndreɪ gaɪm) is a Russian-born Dutch–British physicist working in England in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. [20]
The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. [2] It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in the field of computer science and is often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Computing".
Sir William Lawrence Bragg, CH, OBE, MC, FRS [1] (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) was an Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer, discoverer (1912) of Bragg's law of X-ray diffraction, which is basic for the determination of crystal structure. He was joint recipient (with his father, William Henry Bragg) of the Nobel Prize ...
Adolf Hitler forbade four Germans, Richard Kuhn (Chemistry, 1938), Adolf Butenandt (Chemistry, 1939), Gerhard Domagk (Physiology or Medicine, 1939) and Carl von Ossietzky (Peace, 1936) from accepting their Nobel Prizes. The Chinese government forbade Liu Xiaobo from accepting his Nobel Prize (Peace, 2010) [9] and the government of the Soviet ...
Patrick Blackett. Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett, OM, CH, FRS [5] (18 November 1897 – 13 July 1974), was a British experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1948. [6]
Ernest Rutherford, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908; Michael Smith, completed PhD in Manchester, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993; Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1957; See also Notable chemists (and biologists) at the University of Manchester. References