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The Sheffield School of Medicine was founded in 1828
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Firth College developed out of the Cambridge University Extension Movement scheme, by Mark Firth, a steel manufacturer, to teach arts and science subjects.
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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.
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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.
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1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Howard Florey, for his work on penicillin.
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1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Hans Adolf Krebs, "for the discovery of the citric acid cycle in cellular respiration
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1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to George Porter, "for their work on extremely fast chemical reactions" (
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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"
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1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Sir Harry Kroto, "for their discovery of fullerenes"
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It was named by the Sunday Times "University of the Year" in 2001
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The University of Sheffild was awarded 'University of the Year' Times Higher Education awards
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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"
