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Victoria University of Manchester
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Founded 1851 as Owens College, it received a Royal Charter and became Victoria University in 1880. Merged into the University of Manchester in 2004.
Location:
Manchester, England
Founding Date:
1851 Motto:
Arduus Ad Solem STUDENTS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
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| Robert Bolt |
Playwright |
15-Aug-1924 |
20-Feb-1995 |
A Man for All Seasons |
| James Chadwick |
Physicist |
20-Oct-1891 |
24-Jul-1974 |
Discovered the neutron |
| John Charnley |
Doctor |
29-Aug-1912 |
5-Aug-1982 |
Hip replacement surgery |
| Ernest Howard Griffiths |
Physicist |
15-Jun-1851 |
3-Mar-1932 |
The Thermal Measurement of Energy |
| Christopher Haigh |
Historian |
28-Aug-1944 |
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English Reformations |
| J. J. Thomson |
Physicist |
18-Dec-1856 |
30-Aug-1940 |
Discovered the electron |
TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
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| Niels Bohr |
Physicist |
7-Oct-1885 |
18-Nov-1962 |
Father of Quantum Theory |
| Lawrence Bragg |
Physicist |
31-Mar-1890 |
1-Jul-1971 |
Bragg's Law of diffraction |
| David Edgerton |
Historian |
16-Apr-1959 |
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The Shock of the Old |
| William Stanley Jevons |
Economist |
1-Sep-1835 |
13-Aug-1882 |
Theory of Political Economy |
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