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Leeds School of Medicine is the medical school of the University of Leeds, The School of Medicine was founded in 1831, before the Yorkshire College which became the university,
The university's history is linked to the development of Leeds as an international centre for the textile industry and clothing manufacture in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era. -
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University of Leeds
the Leeds School of Medicine was established with the aim of serving the needs of the five medical institutions which had been established in the city -
Victoria University
originLeeds was given its first university in 1887 when the Yorkshire College joined the federal Victoria University on 3 November.
The Victoria (Leeds) University was a short-lived concept, as the multiple university locations in Manchester and Liverpool were keen to establish themselves as separate, independent universities . -
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Leeds was given its first university in 1887 when the Yorkshire College joined the federal Victoria University
Originally named the Yorkshire College of Science and later simply the Yorkshire College, it incorporated the Leeds School of Medicine and became part of the federal Victoria University -
William Henry Bragg was a British physicist, chemist, mathematician and active sportsman who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son William Lawrence Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics:
originBragg occupied the Cavendish chair of physics in the University of Leeds from 1909. He continued his work on X-rays with much success. He invented the X-ray spectrometer and with his son, William Lawrence Bragg, then a research student at Cambridge, founded the new science of X-ray crystallography, -
William Lawrence Bragg
originBragg was a very able student. After beginning his studies at his brother was killed during the Gallipoli Campaign.Shortly afterwards, William Lawrence Bragg received the news that he had been awarded NobelPrize in Physics, age of 25. In 1905 he went to the University of Adelaide at age 16 to study mathematics, chemistry and physics, graduating in 1908. In the same year his father accepted the Cavendish chair of physics at the University of Leeds, and brought the family back to England. -
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,
originTolkien's first civilian job after World War I was at the Oxford English Dictionary, where he worked mainly on the history and etymology of words of Germanic origin. In 1920, he took up a post as Reader in English Language at the University of Leeds, and became the youngest professor there. -
Origins of the Leeds School of Medicine and the Yorkshire College
http://study.yastudent.ru/stuThe Parkinson Building is a grade II listed art deco building and campanile named after the late Frank Parkinson, a major benefactor of the university who oversaw many new build projects from 1936 onwards. These commitments culminating in the official opening of The Parkinson Building (to which Parkinson donated £200,000)The campanile is the highest point of the building and stands at 57 metres (187 ft) tall, making it the 17th tallest building in the city of Leeds. -
Piers John Sellers
originPiers John Sellers is a British-born Anglo-American meteorologist, and a NASA astronaut.In 1981 he gained a doctorate in biometeorology from the University of Leeds. -
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Sellers performing a spacewalk. Sellers performed three spacewalks.
Sellers and his wife left the UK in 1982, moving to the United States, where he began his NASA career as a research meteorologist at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,
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2 Darnley Road, the former home of Tolkien in West Park, Leeds
originThe Tolkiens had four children. Tolkien was very devoted to his children and sent them illustrated letters from Father Christmas when they were young. During his time at Pembroke College Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and the first two volumes of The Lord of the Rings, whilst living at 20 Northmoor Road in North Oxford (where a blue plaque was placed in 2002).
