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Flinders University, Australia
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- The Flinders University of South Australia, commonly referred to as Flinders University, is a public university in Adelaide, South Australia. Wikipedia
- Address: Sturt Rd, Bedford Park SA 5042, Australia
- Enrollment: 18,835 (2010)
- The university ranks in the 10-16 bracket in Australia and 36th in the world of those established less than 50 years.
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11 Nobel laureates and 7 Fields Medal winners are affiliated with the university. It is the alma mater of many famous writers such as Anton Chekhov and Ivan Turgenev, politicians such as Mikhail Gorbachev or Mikhail Suslov, as well as renowned mathematicians and physicists such as Boris Demidovich, Vladimir Arnold, and Andrey Kolmogorov.
Notable alumni:
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Moscow University:
11 Nobel laureates and 7 Fields Medal winners are affiliated with the university. It is the alma mater of many famous writers such as Anton Chekhov and Ivan Turgenev, politicians such as Mikhail Gorbachev or Mikhail Suslov, as well as renowned mathematicians and physicists such as Boris Demidovich, Vladimir Arnold, and Andrey Kolmogorov.
Notable Alumni:
A. Kolmogorov
Poet Pasternak
Researcher from India
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- VIT University was the first educational institution in India to be awarded International Organization for Standardization 9002 certificate for three years by the Det Norske Veritas (DNV) of Netherlands for management of the cultural festival 'Riviera' in 2011.[5]
- VIT is the first educational institution to be honoured with the TVN-KIDAO-NIQR award instituted by the National Institute of Quality and Reliability (NIQR), for maintaining exceptional quality.
- VIT university was the first Indian engineering institution to get ABET Accreditation for both civil and mechanical programs.[3] VIT has also got ABET accreditation for its Bio Technology, Computer science, Information technology, Electronics & Communication Engineering and Electrical and Electronics Engineering since academic year 2012.[6]
Researcher from United Kingdom
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Imperial is consistently ranked one of the top universities in the world. Most rankings place it in the top 10 globally. In the 2014 QS World University Rankings, Imperial is ranked 2nd overall in the world.[62] In the subject tables of 2010 it is ranked 23rd in the world (and 5th in Europe) for clinical medicine and pharmacy,[63] 30th in the world (and 3rd in Europe) for engineering/technology and computer sciences,[64] 24th in the world (and 5th in Europe) for natural sciences and mathematics[65] and 14th in the world (and 2nd in Europe) for physics.[66] In the 2010 QS World University Rankings, Imperial is ranked 7th overall in the world (and 4th in Europe).[67] In the subject tables it is ranked 6th in the world (and 2nd in Europe) for engineering and technology,[68] 11th in the world (and 3rd in Europe) for life sciences and medicine[69] and 11th in the world (and 4th in Europe) for natural sciences.[70]
In the 2011 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Imperial is ranked 8th overall in the world (and 3rd in Europe).[71] In the subject tables it is ranked 3rd in the world (and 2nd in Europe) for clinical, pre-clinical and health,[72] 9th in the world (and 4th in Europe) for engineering and technology,[73] 9th in the world (and 3rd in Europe) for life sciences[74] and 13th in the world (and 4th in Europe) for physical sciences.[75]
Notable alumni, faculty and staff
Main articles: List of Imperial College London people and List of Nobel laureates affiliated with Imperial College London
Nobel laureates of Imperial include, in medicine, Sir Alexander Fleming(pharmacologist), Sir Ernst Boris Chain (biochemist), Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley, Rodney Robert Porter, in physics, Abdus Salam, Sir George Paget Thomson, Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, Dennis Gabor, Peter Higgs, in chemistry Sir Norman Haworth, Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Sir Derek Barton, Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson and Sir George Porter.
In academia, notable alumni and faculty members include: Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist; Sir Tom Kibble, co-discoverer of Higgs Boson; Sir Tejinder Virdee, known for originating the concept and overseeing the construction of the CMS experiment; Sir John Pendry, pioneer of the "invisibility cloak"; Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold, physical organic chemistry pioneer; Sir William Henry Perkin, discoverer of the first synthetic organic chemical dye mauveine; Sir Edward Frankland, originator of the theory of chemical valency; Sir William Crookes, discoverer of thallium and inventor of the Crookes tube; Harold Hopkins,optics pioneer; Meghnad Saha, mathematician and astro-physicist; Simon Donaldson, mathematician and Fields Medallist; and Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician and philosopher.
Other notable people associated with Imperial include: H. G. Wells, author; Nicholas Tombazis, Ferrari's Chief Designer; Brian May, guitarist of rock band Queen; Julius Vogel, former Prime Minister of New Zealand; Teo Chee Hean, current Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore;