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{{Infobox University
|name = The University of Manchester
|image_name = Manchester University logo.gif
|image_size = 129px
|motto = ''Cognitio, sapientia, humanitas''<br>(Knowledge, wisdom, humanity)
|established = [[2004]] by the merger of the [[Victoria University of Manchester]] (established [[1880]]) and [[UMIST]] (established [[1824]])
|city = [[Manchester]]
|country = [[England]]
|endowment= £146m (2007)<ref>The University of Manchester, Financial statements for the year ended 31 July 2007, p16. [http://www.manchester.ac.uk/medialibrary/governance/accounts2007.pdf]</ref>
|campus = Urban and Suburban
|staff = 10,407
|chancellor = [[Tom Bloxham]]
|vice_chancellor = [[Alan Gilbert|Prof Alan Gilbert]]
|affiliations = [[Russell Group]], [[European University Association|EUA]], [[N8 Group]], [[North West Universities Association|NWUA]], [[Association of Commonwealth Universities|ACU]]
|students = 39,165<ref name="HESA">{{cite web|url= http://www.hesa.ac.uk/dox/dataTables/studentsAndQualifiers/download/institution0607.xls|title= Table 0a - All students by institution, mode of study, level of study, gender and domicile 2006/07|accessdate= 2008-04-11|format= [[Microsoft Excel]] spreadsheet|publisher= [[Higher Education Statistics Agency]]}}</ref>
|undergrad = 27,310<ref name="HESA" />
|postgrad = 11,850<ref name="HESA" />
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|website = [http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ manchester.ac.uk]
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'''The University of Manchester''' is a [[university]] located in [[Manchester]], [[England]]. In 2007/08 it had over 40,000 students studying 500 academic programmes, more than 10,000 staff and an annual income of £637 million and it is the largest single-campus University in the [[United Kingdom]] (the federal [[University of London]] is largest overall). More students try to gain entry to the University of Manchester than any other university in the country, with more than 60,000 applications for undergraduate courses alone. According to the ''[[The Sunday Times (UK)|The Sunday Times]]'', "Manchester has a formidable reputation spanning most disciplines, but most notably in the life sciences, engineering, humanities, economics, sociology and the social sciences".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/student/news/article626449.ece | title=Manchester unites to target world league | publisher=Sunday Times | accessdate=2007-05-13}}</ref>
The present University was formed in 2004 by the dissolution of the ''[[Victoria University of Manchester]]'' (which was commonly known as the University of Manchester) and ''[[UMIST]]'' (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) and the immediate formation of a single institution (inaugurated on Oct. 1). It is a member of the [[Russell Group]] and was named [[Sunday Times University of the Year|University of the Year 2006]]. This followed the awarding of the inaugural [[Times Higher Education Supplement]]'s University of the Year prize in 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.manchester.ac.uk/international/news/universityoftheyear/ | title=University of the Year | publisher=The University of Manchester | accessdate=2007-04-25}}</ref>
==History==
{{main|UMIST|Victoria University of Manchester}}
[[Image:Manchester University Crest.jpg|thumb|left|The University of Manchester coat of arms]]
[[Image:Whitworthhall.jpg|thumb|The university's Whitworth Hall. This archway was the inspiration for the logo of the [[Victoria University of Manchester]]]]
The University's history as an academic institution began in 1824 and is closely linked to Manchester's emergence as the world's first industrial city. The English chemist [[John Dalton]], together with Manchester businessmen and industrialists, established the [[UMIST|Mechanics' Institute]] (later to become [[UMIST]]) to ensure that workers could learn the basic principles of science. Similarly, [[John Owens]], a Manchester textile merchant, left a bequest of £96,942 in 1846 for the purpose of founding a college for the education of males on non-sectarian lines. His trustees established [[Owens College]] at Manchester in 1851. It was initially housed in a building, complete with Adam staircase, on the corner of Quay Street and Byrom Street which had been the home of the philanthropist [[Richard Cobden]], and subsequently was to house Manchester County Court. In 1873 it moved to new buildings at Oxford Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock and from 1880 it was a constituent college of the federal Victoria University. The University was established and granted a Royal Charter in 1880 to become England's first civic university; it was renamed the [[Victoria University of Manchester]] in 1903 and then absorbed Owens College the following year. <ref>{{cite book | author = Charlton, H. B.| title = Portrait of a university, 1851-1951 | year = 1951 | volume = | publisher = Manchester University Press | location = Manchester, England | pages = x, 185}}</ref> -
By 1905 the two institutions were a large and active force in the area, with the Municipal College of Technology, the forerunner of the later UMIST, forming the Faculty of Technology of the Victoria University of Manchester while continuing as a technical college in parallel with the advanced courses of study in the Faculty.
Before the merger, the Universities between them counted 23 [[Nobel Prize]] winners amongst their former staff and students. Manchester has traditionally been particularly strong in the sciences, with the nuclear nature of the atom being discovered at Manchester, and the world's [[Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine|first stored-program computer]] coming into being in the city. Famous scientists associated with the university including the physicists [[Osborne Reynolds]], [[Niels Bohr]], [[Ernest Rutherford]], [[James Chadwick]], [[Arthur Schuster]], [[Hans Geiger]], [[Ernest Marsden]] and [[Balfour Stewart]]. However, the university has also contributed in many other fields, such as by the mathematicians [[Paul Erdős]], [[Horace Lamb]] and [[Alan Turing]], the author [[Anthony Burgess]], philosophers [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]] and [[Alasdair MacIntyre]], the [[Pritzker Prize]] and [[RIBA Stirling Prize]] winning architect [[Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank|Norman Foster]] and the composer [[Peter Maxwell Davies]] all attended, or worked in, Manchester. Well-known figures among the current academic staff include author [[Martin Amis]], computer scientist [[Steve Furber]], literary critic [[Terry Eagleton]], economist [[Richard R. Nelson (economist)|Richard Nelson]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mbs.ac.uk/newsevents/16-07-2007.aspx?rssNE | title=Leading economist joins Manchester Business School |publisher=Manchester Business School | accessdate=2007-12-11}}</ref> and biochemist Sir [[John Sulston]], Nobel laureate of 2002.
In 2004, the [[Victoria University of Manchester]] (est.1880) and the [[University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology]] (est.1824) were formally merged into a single institution.
== University today ==
[[Image:UMIST main building Whitworth Street.jpg|thumb|The [[Sackville Street (Manchester)|Sackville Street Building]], formerly known as [[UMIST]] Main building]]
The newly merged University of Manchester was officially launched on [[22 October]] [[2004]] when [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|the Queen]] handed over the [[Royal Charter]]. It has the largest number of full time students in the UK, unless the [[University of London]] is counted as a single university. It teaches more academic subjects than any other British University. The President and [[Vice-Chancellor]] of the new University is [[Alan Gilbert]], former Vice-Chancellor of the [[University of Melbourne]]. One of his stated ambitions for the newly combined university is to 'establish it by 2015 among the 25 strongest research universities in the world on commonly accepted criteria of research excellence and performance'.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.manchester.ac.uk/medialibrary/2015/2015strategy.pdf | title=Towards 2015 | publisher=The University of Manchester | accessdate=2007-04-25}}</ref>
The [[THES - QS World University Rankings|Times Higher World University Rankings]] 2007 ranked Manchester overall 30th in the world and 5th by employer reviews.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thes.co.uk/worldrankings/ | publisher=The Times Higher Education Supplement | accessdate=2007-04-25 | date=2007 | title=World University Rankings}}</ref> This followed the awarding by the inaugural Times Higher Supplement's University of the Year prize in 2005.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.manchester.ac.uk/international/news/universityoftheyear/ | title=University of the Year | publisher=The University of Manchester | accessdate=2007-04-25}}</ref> The [[Academic Ranking of World Universities]] 2007 published by the Institute of Higher Education of [[Shanghai Jiao Tong University]] ranked Manchester 5th in the UK, 9th in Europe and 48th in the world.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2006/ARWU2007TOP500list.htm | publisher=Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University | date=2007 | accessdate=2007-09-10 | title=Top 500 World Universities}}</ref> According to High Fliers Research Limited's survey, 'The Graduate Market in 2007', University of Manchester students are being targeted by more top recruiters for 2007 graduate vacancies than any other UK university students.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.manchester.ac.uk/international/news/students/ | title=Most wanted students | publisher=The University of Manchester | accessdate=2007-04-25}}</ref>
Manchester has the largest total income of all UK universities, standing at £637 million as of 2007.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.manchester.ac.uk/medialibrary/governance/accounts2007.pdf | title=Finances | publisher=The University of Manchester | accessdate=2008-01-24}}</ref> Its research income of £216 million is the fifth largest of any university in the country. Despite its size The University of Manchester is divided into only four faculties, each sub-divided into schools:
* '''[[Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences (University of Manchester)|Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences]]''' consisting of the Schools of ''[[Manchester Medical School|Medicine]]''; ''Dentistry''; ''Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work''; ''Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences''; and ''Psychological Sciences''.
* '''[[Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences (University of Manchester)|Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences]]''' consisting of the Schools of ''[[School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Sciences, University of Manchester|Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science]]''; ''Chemistry''; ''[[University of Manchester School of Computer Science|Computer Science]]''; ''Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Science''; ''[[School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester|Physics and Astronomy]]''; ''Electrical & Electronic Engineering''; ''[[School of Materials, University of Manchester|Materials]]''; ''[[School of Mathematics, University of Manchester|Mathematics]]''; and ''[[School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering|Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering]]''.
* '''[[Faculty of Humanities (University of Manchester)|Faculty of Humanities]]''' includes the School of ''Arts, Histories and Cultures'' (incorporating Archaeology; Art History; Classics and Ancient History; Drama; English and American Studies; History; Music; and Religions and Theology). The other Schools are ''Combined Studies''; ''Education''; ''Environment and Development''; ''[[Manchester School of Architecture|Architecture]]''; ''Informatics'' (formed from the UMIST Department of Computation); ''Languages, Linguistics and Cultures''; ''Law''; ''Social Sciences'' and the ''[[Manchester Business School]]''.
* '''[[Faculty of Life Sciences (University of Manchester)|Faculty of Life Sciences]]''' unusually consisting of a single school.
==Campus and facilities==
[[Image:One Central Park Manchester.jpg|thumb|One Central Park]]
The ''Main Campus'' of the University consists of the roughly adjoining sites of the former UMIST campus, near [[Sackville Street (Manchester)|Sackville Street]], and the former main campus of the Victoria University of Manchester, in the vicinity of Oxford Road. The terms ''North Campus'' and ''South Campus'' (respectively) are sometimes used when making a distinction between the former sites, though the official status of these terms is unclear, and they are not universally used. In addition there are a number of other university buildings located throughout the city, and throughout the further region, such as [[One Central Park]] and [[Jodrell Bank Observatory]], the latter in the nearby [[county]] of [[Cheshire]]. The former is a collaboration between Manchester University and other partners in the region which offers office space to accommodate new start-up firms as well as venues for conferences and workshops.<ref>[http://www.conference.manchester.ac.uk/meetingmanchester/meetingandaccommodationfacilities/onecentralpark/ One Central Park (The University of Manchester)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
===Major projects===
[[Image:MIBatrium.jpg|thumb|The atrium inside the new £38m [[Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre]]]]
Following the merger, the University embarked on a £600 million programme of capital investment, to deliver eight new buildings and 15 major refurbishment projects by [[2010]], partly financed by a sale of unused assets.<ref name=AssetSale> Manchester Evening News 31 July 2007 {{cite web|url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/business/s/1012/1012479_cashstrapped_uni_sells_assets.html|
title=Cash-strapped uni sells assets|accessdate=2007-10-04}}</ref> These include:
* £60 m Flagship ''University Place'' building
* £56 m [[Alan Turing Building]]: housing Mathematics, the Photon Sciences Institute and the [[Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics]].
* £50 m Life Sciences Research Building
* £38 m [[Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre]] (MIB)
* £33 m Life Sciences and Medical and Human Sciences Building
* £31 m Humanities Building - now officially called the "[[Arthur Lewis Building]]"
* £20 m [[Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre]] (WMIC)
* £18 m Re-location of School of Pharmacy
* £17 m [[John Rylands Library]], Deansgate
* £13 m Chemistry Building
* £10 m Functional Biology Building
===John Rylands University Library===
{{main|John Rylands University Library}}
The University's library, the John Rylands University Library, is the largest non-[[legal deposit]] library in the UK, as well as being the country's third-largest academic library after those of [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]].<ref> The claim about the size is supported by the library web site in 2005, [http://web.archive.org/web/20051216153301/http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/about.html Archived page Dec 16 2005], however the current website does not make the claim [http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/], accessed 07/10/2007</ref> The oldest part of the library, founded in memory of [[John Rylands]] by his wife [[Enriqueta Augustina Rylands]] as an independent institution, is situated in a [[Victorian Gothic]] building on [[Deansgate]], [[Manchester City Centre|Manchester city centre]]. This site houses an important collection of historic books and manuscripts, including the oldest extant [[New Testament]] document, [[Rylands Library Papyrus P52]], the so-called ''St John fragment''. The Deansgate site has recently (April 2007) reopened to the public, following major improvements and renovations, including the construction of the pitched roof originally intended and a new wing in Spinningfield.
===Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics===
{{main|Jodrell Bank Observatory}}
[[Image:Lovell Telescope.jpg|thumb|The 76 m Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory.]]
The Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics is a combination of the astronomical academic staff, situated in Manchester, and the [[Jodrell Bank Observatory]] near [[Goostrey]], about ten miles (16 km) west of [[Macclesfield]]. The observatory boasts the third largest fully-movable radio telescope in the world, the [[Lovell Telescope]], constructed in the 1950s. It has played an important role in the research of [[quasar]]s, [[pulsar]]s and [[gravitational lens]]es, and has played a role in confirming [[Albert Einstein|Einstein's]] theory of [[General Relativity]].
===Manchester Museum===
{{main|Manchester Museum}}
[[Image:Manchester Museum Entrance.jpg|thumb|left|The modern entrance of the Manchester Museum]]
The Manchester Museum provides access to nearly 4.25 million<ref name=MuseumCollection>
{{cite web| url=http://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/collection/ |title=Manchester Museum's ''Our collection'' page |accessdate=2008-02-26}}</ref> items sourced from around the world. Collections include butterflies and carvings from India, birds and bark-cloth from the Pacific, live frogs and ancient pottery from America, fossils and native art from Australia, mammals and ancient Egyptian craftsmanship from Africa, plants, coins and minerals from Europe, art from past civilisations of the Mediterranean, and beetles, armour and archery from Asia. In November 2004, the museum acquired a cast of a fossilised ''[[Tyrannosaurus|Tyrannosaurus rex]]'' called "Stan", which was unveiled. Furthermore, a new exhibition was opened at the Museum in April 2008, which is set to last for a year, and will have the [[Lindow Man]] on display, that is currently at the [[British Museum]] in London.<ref>Manchester Prepares for the Appearance of Lindow Man, 24hourmuseum, February 2007[http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/manchester/news/ART44192.html]</ref>
The history of the museum goes back to 1821, when the first collections were assembled by the Manchester Society of Natural History and later added by the collections of the Manchester Geological Society.
Due to financial difficulties and on the advice of the great evolutionary biologist [[Thomas Huxley]], [[Owens College]] accepted responsibility for the collections in [[1867]]. The college commissioned [[Alfred Waterhouse]], the architect of London’s [[Natural History Museum]], to design a museum to house these collections for the benefit of students and the public on a new site in Oxford Road. The Manchester Museum was finally opened to the public in the late 1880s.<ref>The History of The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, [http://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/history/], accessed 25/11/2007</ref>
===Whitworth Art Gallery===
{{main|Whitworth Art Gallery}}
[[Image:Whitworth Art Gallery.jpg|thumb|The Whitworth Art Gallery]]
The Whitworth Art Gallery is home to collections of internationally famous British watercolours, textiles and wallpapers, as well as modern and historic prints, drawings, paintings and sculpture. It overall contains 31,000 items in its collection. A programme of temporary exhibitions runs throughout the year, with the Mezzanine Court serving as a venue for showing sculpture.
It was founded by Robert Darbishire with a donation from Sir [[Joseph Whitworth]] in 1889, as ''The Whitworth Institute and Park''. 70 years later the gallery became official part of the University of Manchester.<ref name=history> {{cite web|url=http://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/history/
|title=A Short History of The Whitworth Art Gallery|accessdate=2008-03-10}}</ref> In October 1995 a Mezzanine Court in the centre of the building was opened. This new gallery, designed chiefly for the display of sculptures, won a [[Royal Institute of British Architects|RIBA]] regional award.
===Contact Theatre===
[[Image:Contact Theatre.jpg|thumb|The [[Contact Theatre]]]]
{{main|Contact Theatre}}
The Contact Theatre largely stages modern live performance and participatory work for younger audiences. Completed in 1999, it is housed in an interesting fortress-style building on the Oxford Road. It features a unique energy-efficient system, using its high towers to naturally ventilate the building without the use of air conditioning. The colourful and curvaceous interior houses three performance spaces, a contact lounge bar and ''Hot Air'', a reactive public artwork in the foyer space.
===Old Quadrangle===
[[Image:Main Quadrangle University of Manchester by Nick Higham.jpg|thumbnail|The Old Quadrangle]]
The buildings around the old quadrangle date from the time of Owens College, and were designed in a [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] style by [[Alfred Waterhouse]] (and his son [[Paul Waterhouse]]). Today, [[Manchester Museum|the museum]] continues to occupy one side (including the tower) and the grand setting of Whitworth Hall is used for the conferment of degrees. The old Christie Library now houses Christie's Bistro, and the remainder of the buildings are used by administrative departments.
===Chancellors Hotel and Conference Centre===
{{main|Chancellors Hotel & Conference Centre}}
{{main|Manchester Conference Centre}}
[[Image:Chcc blue sky.jpg|thumb|left|Chancellors Hotel & Conference Centre]]
Formerly named The Firs, the original house was built in 1850 for [[Sir Joseph Whitworth]], by [[Edward Walters]], who was also responsible for Manchester’s [[Free Trade Hall]] and [[Strangeways Prison]]. Whitworth used the Firs mainly as a social, political and business base, entertaining radicals of the age such as [[John Bright]], [[Richard Cobden]], [[William Forster]] and [[Thomas Henry Huxley|T.H. Huxley]] at the time of the [[Reform Bill]] of 1867. Whitworth, credited with raising the art of machine-tool building to a previously-unknown level, supported the new [[Mechanics Institute]] in Manchester – the birthplace of [[UMIST]] - and helped to found the [[Manchester School of Design]]. Whilst living in the house, Whitworth used land to the rear (now the site of the University's botanical glasshouses) for testing his "[[Whitworth rifle]]". In 1882, the Firs was leased to [[C.P. Scott]], Editor of the [[Manchester Guardian]]. After Scott's death the house became the property of [[Owens College]], and was the Vice-Chancellor's residence until 1991.
The old house now forms the western wing of Chancellors Hotel & Conference Centre at the University. The newer eastern wing houses the circular Flowers Theatre, six individual conference rooms and the majority of the 75 hotel bedrooms.
Moreover, the University owns and operate the Manchester Conference Centre on [[Sackville Street (Manchester)|Sackville Street]] that offers conference facilities in its two theatres (seating up to 300) and 19 seminar rooms.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.conference.manchester.ac.uk/|title=Manchester conference facilities| accessdate=2008-04-03}}</ref>
===Residential campuses===
[[Image:ManUni Accommodation year1.jpg|thumb|left|Ashburne Hall is a catered accommodation offered to mainly female undergraduate students, though, some places are reserved for postgraduate students]]
Prior to merging, the two former universities had for some time been sharing their residential facilities.
The North Campus lies on the previous UMIST Campus, comprising five halls of residence central to the [[Sackville Street (Manchester)|Sackville Street]] building (Weston, Lambert, Fairfield, Chandos, [[Wright Robinson]]), and several other halls within a 5-15 minute walk away, such as the Grosvenor group of halls and [[Whitworth Park]].
The [[Fallowfield Campus]], situated 2 miles (3.2 km) south of the main university campus (the South Campus), is the largest of the university's residential campuses. The [[Owens Park]] tower lies at the centre of it, with [[Oak House]] being the other main hall of residence. Woolton Hall is also present on Fallowfield campus next to Oak house. [[Allen Hall]] is a traditional hall situated nearby equally classic [[Ashburne Hall]] with the relatively recent addition of Sheavyn House. Richmond Park is also a relatively recent addition to the campus.
[[Victoria Park Campus]], situated between Fallowfield and the South Campus, just off [[Rusholme]], comprises several houses of residence. Among these are [[St Anselm Hall]] with [[Canterbury Court]], [[Dalton-Ellis Hall]] (with Pankhurst Court), [[Hulme Hall]] (including [[Burkhardt House]]), [[St Gabriel's Hall]] and [[Opal Gardens Hall]].
==Clubs and societies==
''See also: [[University of Manchester Students' Union| University of Manchester Students' Union: Societies]]''
[[Image:Manchester University Boat Club.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The University's Boat Club is one of many Athletic Union Clubs that Manchester offers [http://www.mubc.org.uk/Home.htm]]]
Unlike some universities The University of Manchester operates its own sports clubs via the [[Athletics Union]]. Student societies on the other hand are operated by the [[University of Manchester Students' Union|Student Union]].
Today the university can boast more than 80 health and fitness classes whilst over 3000 students are members of the 44 various Athletic Union Clubs. The sports societies in Manchester vary widely in their level and scope. Many of the more popular sports have several university teams as well as departmental teams which may be placed in a league against other teams within the university. Common teams include: hockey, rugby, football, basketball, netball and cricket. The [[Manchester Aquatics Centre]], the swimming pool used for the [[2002 Commonwealth Games|Manchester Commonwealth Games]] is also on the campus.
The University competes annually in 28 different sports against Leeds and Liverpool Universities in the Christie Cup, which Manchester has won for five consecutive years.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/index.htm?id=133663|title=Battle of the North| accessdate=2008-04-03}}</ref> The university has also achieved considerable success in the [[British Universities & Colleges Sport|BUCS]] (British Universities Sports Association) competitions. It is currently positioned in 10th place in the overall BUSA rankings for 2007/08<ref>[http://www.busa.org.uk/page.asp?section=00010001000200010005&itemTitle=Championships Championships - BUSA<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
Every year elite sportsmen and sportswomen at the university are selected for membership of the ''XXI Club'', a society that was formed in 1932 and exists to promote sporting excellence at the university. Most members have gained a [[Blue (university sport)|Full Maroon]] for representing The University and many have excelled at a British Universities or National level.
==NHS hospitals==
[[Image:Old Medical School.jpg|thumb|Old Medical School on Coupland Street (photographed in 1908), which now houses the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences]]
The [[Manchester Medical School]], established in 1874, is one of the largest in the country,<ref>{{cite web |title=School of Medicine |publisher=The University of Manchester |url=http://www.medicine.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/ |accessdate=2008-04-03}}</ref> with over 400 medical students being trained in each of the clinical years and over 350 students in the pre-clinical/phase 1 years. Approximately 100 students who have completed pre-clinical training at the [[Bute Medical School]] ([[University of St Andrews]]) join the third year of the undergraduate medical programme each year.
The University's Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences has links with a large number of [[NHS]] hospitals in the north west of England and maintains presences in its four base hospitals: [[Manchester Royal Infirmary]] (located at the southern end of the main university campus on Oxford Road), Wythenshawe Hospitals, [[Salford Royal]] and the [[Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust|Royal Preston Hospital]]. All are used for clinical medical training for doctors and nurses.
The [http://www.pharmacy.manchester.ac.uk/ School of Pharmacy] at Manchester University also benefits from the University's links with the Manchester Royal Infirmary, Wythenshawe and Salford Royal hospitals. All of the undergraduate pharmacy students gain hospital experience through these links and are the only pharmacy students in the UK to have an extensive course completed in secondary care.<ref>{{cite web |title=School of Pharmacy |publisher=The University of Manchester |url=http://www.pharmacy.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/history/ |accessdate=2008-04-04}}</ref>
==Notable academic staff and alumni==
{{main|People associated with the University of Manchester}}
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Many notable and famous people have worked or studied at one or both of the two former institutions that merged to form the University of Manchester, including 23 [[Nobel prize]] laureates. Some of the best known include [[John Dalton]] (founder of modern atomic theory), [[George E. Davis]] (founded the discipline of [[Chemical Engineering]]), [[Bernard Lovell]] (a pioneer of [[radio astronomy]]), [[Alan Turing]] (one of the founders of [[computer science]] and [[artificial intelligence]]), [[Irene Khan]] (current secretary general of [[Amnesty International]]) and [[Robert Bolt]] (two times [[Academy Award]] winner and three times [[Golden Globe]] winner for screenwriting [[Lawrence of Arabia]] and [[Doctor Zhivago]]). Additionally, a number of politicians are associated with the university, including the current Presidents of [[Belize]], [[Iceland]] and [[Trinidad and Tobago]], as well as several ministers among others in the [[United Kingdom]], [[Malaysia]], [[Canada]] and [[Singapore]] and also [[Chaim Weizmann]], a chemist and the first President of [[Israel]].
===Nobel prize winners===
'''Chemistry'''
* [[Ernest Rutherford]] (awarded Nobel prize in 1908), for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements and the chemistry of radioactive substances (He was the first to probe the atom).
* [[Arthur Harden]] (awarded Nobel prize in 1929), for investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes.
* [[Walter Haworth]] (awarded Nobel prize in 1937), for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C.
* [[Robert Robinson (scientist)|Robert Robinson]] (awarded Nobel prize in 1947), for his investigations on plant products of biological importance, especially the alkaloids.
* [[Alexander Todd]] (awarded Nobel prize in 1957), for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes.
* [[Melvin Calvin]] (awarded Nobel prize in 1961), for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants.
* [[John Charles Polanyi]] (awarded Nobel prize in 1986), for his contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes.
* [[Michael Smith (chemist)|Michael Smith]] (awarded Nobel prize in 1993), for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleiotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies.
'''Physics'''
* [[J. J. Thomson|Joseph John (J. J.) Thomson]] (awarded Nobel prize in 1906), in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases.
* [[William Lawrence Bragg]] (awarded Nobel prize in 1915), for his services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays.
* [[Niels Bohr]] (awarded Nobel prize in 1922), for his fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics.
* [[Charles Thomson Rees Wilson|Charles Thomson Rees (C. T. R.) Wilson]] (awarded Nobel prize in 1927), for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour.
* [[James Chadwick]] (awarded Nobel prize in 1935), for the discovery of the [[neutron]].
* [[George de Hevesy]] (awarded Nobel prize in 1943), for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes.
* [[Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett|Patrick M. Blackett]] (awarded Nobel prize in 1948), for developing cloud chamber and confirming/discovering positron.
* [[Sir John Douglas Cockcroft]] (awarded Nobel prize in 1951), for his pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles.
* [[Hans Bethe]] (awarded Nobel prize in 1967), for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars.
* [[Nevill Francis Mott]] (awarded Nobel prize in 1977), for his fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.
'''Physiology and Medicine'''
* [[Archibald Vivian Hill]] (awarded Nobel prize in 1922), for his discovery relating to the production of heat in the muscle. One of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research.
* [[John Sulston|Sir John Sulston]] (awarded Nobel prize in 2002), for his discoveries concerning 'genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death'. In 2007 it was announced that Sulston will join Manchester's Faculty of Life Sciences and will chair Institute of Science, Ethics and Innovation.<ref>[http://www.ls.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/articles/article/?id=125409 Nobel Prize winner to chair new Institute of Science, Ethics and Innovation (Faculty of Life Sciences - The University of Manchester)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
'''Economics'''
* [[John Hicks]] (awarded Nobel prize in 1974), for his pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory.
* [[Sir Arthur Lewis]] (awarded Nobel prize in 1979), for his pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries.
* [[Joseph E. Stiglitz]] (awarded Nobel prize in 2001), for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information. Currently, Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz heads the [[Brooks World Poverty Institute]] (BWPI) at the University of Manchester.
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