EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Established 2004 by the merger UMIST (1824) and the Victoria University of Manchester (1851).

Location:
Manchester, England

Founding Date:
1824

Motto:
Cognitio, sapientia, hvmanitas

Enrollment:
35,500

Official Website:
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Hank Barnette	Business	c. 1934		CEO of Bethlehem Steel, 1992-2000
Margaret Beckett	Government	15-Jan-1943		UK Foreign Secretary, 2006-07
Robert Bolt	Playwright	15-Aug-1924	20-Feb-1995	A Man for All Seasons
Malcolm Bradbury	Critic	7-Sep-1932	27-Nov-2000	The History Man
Ronald A. Brenneman	Business	c. 1947		CEO of Petro-Canada
R. Hanbury Brown	Astronomer	31-Aug-1916	16-Jan-2002	Optical intensity interferometer
Anthony Burgess	Novelist	25-Feb-1917	25-Nov-1993	A Clockwork Orange
Terence Burns	Business	13-Mar-1944		Chairman of Marks & Spencer
Melvin Calvin	Chemist	8-Apr-1911	8-Jan-1997	Deciphered photosynthesis
David Chandler	Scholar	11-Jul-1962		Constructing Global Civil Society
Sydney Chapman	Mathematician	29-Jan-1888	16-Jun-1970	Geomagnetism
John Cockcroft	Physicist	27-May-1897	18-Sep-1967	Split the atom
Benedict Cumberbatch	Actor	19-Jul-1976		BBC's Sherlock Holmes
Peter Dicken	Economist	5-Mar-1938		Global Shift
W. Roy Dunbar	Business	1961		CEO of Network Solutions
Arthur Eddington	Astronomer	28-Dec-1882	22-Nov-1944	Eddington luminosity
Geoffrey Eglinton	Geologist	1-Nov-1927		Molecular organic geochemistry
Ben Elton	Comic	3-May-1959		Writer, Blackadder
Norman Foster	Architect	1-Jun-1935		Architect of the Gherkin
Robin Freestone	Business	c. 1959		CFO of Pearson
Dawn French	Comic	11-Oct-1957		French and Saunders
Hans Geiger	Physicist	30-Sep-1882	24-Sep-1945	Co-Inventor of the Geiger Counter
Andre Geim	Physicist	Oct-1958		Super-thin carbon physics
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson	Head of State	14-May-1943		President of Iceland
Arthur Harden	Chemist	12-Oct-1865	17-Jun-1940	Enzymes of sugar fermentation
Norman Haworth	Chemist	19-Mar-1883	19-Mar-1950	Carbohydrates and vitamin C
Raymond Hide	Physicist	17-May-1929		Earth's rotation
Rob James-Collier	Actor	23-Sep-1976		Thomas Barrow on Downton Abbey
James Prescott Joule	Physicist	24-Dec-1818	11-Oct-1889	English physicist, Joule's Law
Marcy Kaptur	Politician	17-Jun-1946		Congresswoman, Ohio 9th
Abba Lerner	Economist	28-Oct-1903	27-Oct-1982	The Economics of Control
Bernard Lovell	Astronomer	31-Aug-1913	6-Aug-2012	Radio astronomer at Jodrell Bank
James Lovelock	Scientist	26-Jul-1919		The Gaia Theory
Rik Mayall	Actor	7-Mar-1958	9-Jun-2014	Rick on The Young Ones
Timothy Mott	Business	c. 1949		Co-Founder of Macromedia
Said Musa	Head of State	19-Mar-1944		Prime Minister of Belize
Konstantin Novoselov	Physicist	Aug-1974		Super-thin carbon physics
Rudolf Peierls	Physicist	5-Jun-1907	19-Sep-1995	Frisch-Peierls Memorandum
John C. Polanyi	Chemist	23-Jan-1929		Infrared chemiluminescence
Robert Powell	Actor	1-Jun-1944		Jesus of Nazareth
Sir Robert Robinson	Chemist	13-Sep-1886	8-Feb-1975	Researcher of alkaloids
Erskine Sandiford	Head of State	24-Mar-1937		Prime Minister of Barbados, 1987-94
Wallace Sargent	Astronomer	15-Feb-1935	29-Oct-2012	Astrophysicist at CalTech
Michael Smith	Chemist	26-Apr-1932	4-Oct-2000	Oligonucleotide-based mutagenesis
Paul G. Stern	Business	31-Oct-1938		CEO of Northern Telecom, 1989-93
Gerry Stoker	Scholar	4-Feb-1955		Transforming Local Governance
Alan Turing	Mathematician	23-Jun-1912	7-Jun-1954	Computing pioneer
Victor W. Turner	Anthropologist	28-May-1920	1983	The Drums of Affliction
Barry Unsworth	Novelist	10-Aug-1930	5-Jun-2012	Sacred Hunger
C. T. R. Wilson	Physicist	14-Feb-1869	15-Nov-1959	Cloud chamber

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Samuel Alexander	Philosopher	6-Jan-1859	13-Sep-1938	Space, Time, and Deity
Gerald Aylmer	Historian	30-Apr-1926	17-Dec-2000	The King's Servants
Max Beloff	Historian	2-Jul-1913	22-Mar-1999	Founder, University of Buckingham
Patrick M. S. Blackett	Physicist	18-Nov-1897	13-Jul-1974	Cosmic radiation, continental drift
Sean Dennis Cashman	Historian	18-Sep-1943		America in the Gilded Age
Sydney Chapman	Mathematician	29-Jan-1888	16-Jun-1970	Geomagnetism
Thomas George Cowling	Mathematician	17-Jun-1906	16-Jun-1990	Cowling model
Peter Dicken	Economist	5-Mar-1938		Global Shift
Terry Eagleton	Critic	22-Feb-1943		Literary Theory: An Introduction
David Edgerton	Historian	16-Apr-1959		The Shock of the Old
Samuel E. Finer	Historian	22-Sep-1915	9-Jun-1993	Theory and Practice of Modern Government
Andre Geim	Physicist	Oct-1958		Super-thin carbon physics
Arthur Harden	Chemist	12-Oct-1865	17-Jun-1940	Enzymes of sugar fermentation
George de Hevesy	Chemist	1-Aug-1885	5-Jul-1966	Radioisotope researcher
John R. Hicks	Economist	8-Apr-1904	20-May-1989	Value and Capital
Archibald V. Hill	Scientist	26-Sep-1886	3-Jun-1977	Studied muscles and nerves
Ian Kershaw	Historian	29-Apr-1943		The Nazi Dictatorship
Arthur Lewis	Economist	23-Jan-1915	15-Jun-1991	Economics of developing nations
Bernard Lovell	Astronomer	31-Aug-1913	6-Aug-2012	Radio astronomer at Jodrell Bank
E. Arthur Milne	Mathematician	14-Feb-1896	21-Sep-1950	Kinematic relativity
Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley	Physicist	23-Nov-1887	10-Aug-1915	Confirmed importance of atomic number
Lewis Namier	Historian	27-Jun-1888	19-Aug-1960	England in the Age of the American Revolution
Frank O'Gorman	Historian	12-Sep-1940		Voters, Patrons, and Parties
Sir Robert Robinson	Chemist	13-Sep-1886	8-Feb-1975	Researcher of alkaloids
Ernest Rutherford	Physicist	30-Aug-1871	19-Oct-1937	Father of nuclear physics
Gerry Stoker	Scholar	4-Feb-1955		Transforming Local Governance
Alexander R. Todd	Chemist	2-Oct-1907	10-Jan-1997	Nucleic acid, nucleotides
Victor W. Turner	Anthropologist	28-May-1920	1983	The Drums of Affliction
Chaim Weizmann	Head of State	27-Nov-1874	9-Nov-1952	First President of Israel

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Andre Geim	Physicist	Oct-1958		Super-thin carbon physics

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