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In 1834, the physicians and surgeons of the Royal Infirmary had organized a Medical School, which attained considerable success, though quite unendowed. This school was to be the real nucleus of the university. It was from the teachers in this school—all leading medical men in the city, among whom should be especially named the late Sir Banks and Dr.Caton—that the main demand came for the foundation of a college, during the seventies, when such institutions were springing up in most large towns.
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The University was established in 1881 as University College Liverpool.
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The College opened in 1882 with 45 students on Brownlow Hill. From the start, it recruited notable scholars and received generous financial support from the people of Liverpool. A high proportion of the original students came from Merseyside; for poor yet able students there were scholarships and fellowships.
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In 1884 it became part of the federal Victoria University. Victoria University was a federal university with sites in Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds in the United Kingdom which existed between 1880-1903.
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The University of Liverpool’s iconic Victoria Building was officially opened on December13. It was designed by Liverpool-born Alfred Waterhouse, one of the 19th century’s richest and busiest architects who also designed the Walker Engineering Laboratories and the Thompson Yates Laboratories.
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The University attracted the pioneers of the day, including Professor Oliver Lodge, who made the world's first public radio transmission in 1894.
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Two years later in 1896, Lodge demonstrated the use of X-ray photography by taking an image of a bullet in a boy's wrist. It was the first time an X-ray had been used for surgical purposes in the UK.
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LSTM was founded on 12 November 1898 by Sir Alfred Lewis Jones, a local ship owner. At the time, Liverpool was a prominent port city which carried on an extensive trade with overseas regions such as West and Southern Africa. Consequently, the number of patients in the region admitted to .hospital with ‘tropical’ diseases soared, so he set up the School of Tropical Medicine with local business and health pioneers to investigate these outbreaks.
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The Liverpool University Press was founded in 1899, making it the third oldest university press in England.
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Sir Ronald Ross was also the first British Nobel laureate in 1902.
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In 1903 the University received its Charter and became an independent university. This enabled the University to confer degrees in its own right, and so University College became the University of Liverpool.
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Professor Charles Glover Barkla's research into X-Rays won him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1917.
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Sir Charles Sherrington was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine in 1932 for his research into neurons.
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Sir James Chadwick was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1935 for discovering the neutron.
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The University is also associated with Professors Ronald Finn and Sir Cyril Clarke who jointly won the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award in 1980.
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In 1994 the university was a founding member of the Russell Group, a collaboration of twenty leading research-intensive universities, as well as a founding member of the N8 Group in 2004. In the 21st century physicists, engineers and technicians from the University of Liverpool were involved in the construction of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, working on two of the four detectors in the LHC.
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More recently, Sir Joseph Rotblat was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995 for his work on limiting the threat posed by nuclear weapons.
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Its Ј9m Management School opened in 2002, offering a world-class business education
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Ј25m Biosciences Centre opened in 2003, providing first-rate facilities for research, teaching and new biotech businesses.
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In 2006 the university became the first in the UK to establish an independent university in China, making it the world's first Sino-British university. Resulting from a partnership between the University of Liverpool and Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University is the first Sino-British university between research led universities, exploring new educational models for China.
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The Central Teaching Hub is a large multi-use building that houses a recently refurbished Lecture Theatre Block (LTB) and state of the art teaching facilities (Central Teaching Labs, CTL) for the Departments of Chemistry, Physics and Environmental Sciences, within the University's Central City Centre Campus. It was completed and officially opened in September 2012 with an estimated project cost of £23m. data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/2wCEAAkGBxQTEhUUExQWFhUXGBgZGBcWGBgcGhgdH
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