The University of Sheffild

foundation of the Sheffild School of Medicine

May 10, 1828

The Sheffield School of Medicine was founded in 1828

Foundation

Period: Dec 7, 1828 to Dec 7, 2015

the opeining of Firth College

Sep 10, 1879

Firth College developed out of the Cambridge University Extension Movement scheme, by Mark Firth, a steel manufacturer, to teach arts and science subjects.

opening of Sheffield Technical School

Mar 7, 1884

Sheffield Technical School was founded in to teach applied science, the only major faculty the existing colleges did not cover. The Sheffield Technical School was opened to arouse local concern about the need for technical training, particularly steelmaking in Sheffield, and the school moved to St George's Square in 1886.

Foundation

May 31, 1905

the University College of Sheffield received its own Royal Charter on 31 May 1905 and became the University of Sheffield. In July 1905, Firth Court on Western Bank was opened by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.

Nobel Prize was awarded

Nov 30, 1945

1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Howard Florey, for his work on penicillin.

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Hans Adolf Krebs,

Dec 7, 1953

1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Hans Adolf Krebs, "for the discovery of the citric acid cycle in cellular respiration

Nobel Prize in Chemistry (joint award), George Porter,

Dec 2, 1967

1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to George Porter, "for their work on extremely fast chemical reactions" (

1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (joint award), Richard J. Roberts

Nov 20, 1993

1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (joint award), Richard J. Roberts, "for the discovery that genes in eukaryotes are not contiguous strings but contain introns, and that the splicing of messenger RNA to delete those introns can occur in different ways, yielding different proteins from the same DNA sequence"

1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (joint award), Sir Harry Kroto

Dec 7, 1996

1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Sir Harry Kroto, "for their discovery of fullerenes"

University of the Year

Feb 3, 2001

It was named by the Sunday Times "University of the Year" in 2001

'University of the Year' Times Higher Education awards

Dec 28, 2011

The University of Sheffild was awarded 'University of the Year' Times Higher Education awards

Nobel Prize in Chemistry (joint award), Tomas Lindahl

Dec 2, 2015

2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Tomas Lindahl, "for his truly exceptional work on DNA and his insights into the systems of DNA repair which make life possible"