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The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) [8] [9] is a public research university in Birmingham, England.It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingham (founded in 1825 as the Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery), and Mason Science College (established in 1875 by Sir Josiah Mason), making it the first English civic or 'red brick ...
Leon Abrams, cardiothoracic surgeon at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, with Ray Lightwood developed and implanted the first variable rate pacemaker in 1960 (MBChB Medicine, 1945) Babatunde Kwaku Adadevoh, Nigerian Physician, Vice chancellor of the University of Lagos, Nigeria. Sir Gilbert Barling, 1st Baronet, physician.
Sir Robert Aitken, Vice-chancellor & Principal of the University of Birmingham 1953–1968, helped set up the University of Warwick. Lord Hunter of Newington, physician, Vice-chancellor & Principal of the University of Birmingham 1968–1981. Edward Marsland, Vice-chancellor & Principal of the University of Birmingham 1982–1987.
Stuart Henry McPhail Hall FBA (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014) was a Jamaican-born British Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist.Hall — along with Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams — was one of the founding figures of the school of thought known as British Cultural Studies or the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies.
University of Birmingham. Doctoral advisor. Alexander Baykov. Robert William Davies (23 April 1925 – 13 April 2021), better known as R. W. Davies or Bob Davies, was a British historian, writer and professor of Soviet Economic Studies at the University of Birmingham. Obtaining his PhD in 1954, Davies was promoted to full professor and made ...
Birmingham Business School (BBS) is the business school of the University of Birmingham in England. Established in 1989, the school traces its history back to the School of Commerce founded in 1902, [1] leading to it sometimes being identified as the oldest business school in the United Kingdom. [2][3] Edgar Meyer was announced new dean in June ...
1100–1199. 1154 – Lord of the manor Peter de Birmingham has the charter to hold a market in Birmingham on every Thursday, transforming the village into a town. 1160 – The first stone church building is erected on the site of St. Mary's Church, Handsworth. 1176 – A road passing through Sutton Coldfield is recorded.
Adam Tickell FAcSS (born 1965) is a British economic geographer, whose work explores finance, English local governance, and the politics of ideas. He is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham, [3] and was formerly Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex. [4] He also edited the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.