University of Liverpool

The University of Liverpool is a university in the city of Liverpool in the United Kingdom.

History

The university was established in 1881 as University College Liverpool. In 1884, it became part of the federal Victoria University. Following a Royal Charter and Act of Parliament in 1903, it became an independent university with the right to confer its own degrees called the University of Liverpool.

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1881 - 1884 - Victoria University - Royal Charter - Act of Parliament - 1903

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The University has produced 8 Nobel prize winners, with many of them being due to science or medicine. The nobel laureates include the physician Sir Ronald Ross, physicist Professor Charles Barkla, the physiologist Sir Charles Sherrington, physicist Sir James Chadwick, chemist Sir Robert Robinson, physiologist Professor Har Gobind Khorana, physiologist Professor Rodney Porter, and physicist Professor Joseph Rotblat.

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Nobel prize - Science - Medicine - Sir Ronald Ross - Professor Charles Barkla - Sir Charles Sherrington - Sir James Chadwick - Sir Robert Robinson - Professor Har Gobind Khorana - Professor Rodney Porter - Professor Joseph Rotblat

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The term red brick was first coined by a Liverpool professor to describe the red brick built civic universities that were built in the UK mostly in the latter part of the 19th Century, referring to the Victoria Building which was historically the administrative heart of the University.

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Red brick - Victoria Building

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