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
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		English Reformations
J. J. Thomson	Physicist	18-Dec-1856	30-Aug-1940	Discovered the electron

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
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		The Shock of the Old
William Stanley Jevons	Economist	1-Sep-1835	13-Aug-1882	Theory of Political Economy

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