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37 unusual facts about University of Liverpool


Adam Carmer

He is currently attending The University of Liverpool where he is pursuing a Doctorate in Higher Education.

Alec Merrison

Leaving Harwell in 1951 for the University of Liverpool he was Leverhulme Fellow and Lecturer (Ph.D. 1957), beginning ten years of research on elementary particle physics, using newly developed proton synchrotron machines.

Alexander Carr-Saunders

The success of his magnum opus The Population Problem resulted in his appointment to the Charles Booth Chair of Social Science at the University of Liverpool in 1923.

Alfred Chilton Pearson

At the age of 58, and despite a life spent outside academia, Pearson was elected in 1919 as the Gladstone Professor of Greek at the University of Liverpool, subsequently becoming in 1921 the Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Trinity College.

Arthur Rosenberg

From 1934 to 1937 Rosenberg taught history at the University of Liverpool.

Chau Cham Son

He also undertook further post-graduate studies at the University of Liverpool and the University of Melbourne and qualified as a registered town planner.

Danoli

He was operated on at the University of Liverpool's Leahurst Veterinary College, and his future as a racehorse was left in the balance.

David I. Masson

Following his demobilisation he took on the role of curator of special collections at Liverpool and married his wife, Olive Newton, in 1950 before returning to Leeds in 1956 to become curator of the Brotherton collection, an assemblage of (mostly) English literature including many rare books and manuscripts bequeathed to the University by Lord Brotherton of Wakefield on his death in 1930.

Deeside College

From 1974, the North East Wales Institute expanded under the vision of another prominent educator, Professor Glyn O Phillips, who took the institution forward and made it into a significant research based and practice based technological organisation which had a financial turnover equalling a great many universities close by, like Liverpool, Manchester and Bangor.

Edward Shanks

He was later a literary reviewer, working for the London Mercury (1919-22) and for a short while a lecturer at the University of Liverpool (1926).

G. L. S. Shackle

Following the war, a short spell at the Cabinet Office under James Meade and at the University of Leeds led to appointment as professor of economics at the University of Liverpool, a post he held until his retirement in 1969.

George Lynskey

Lynskey had three younger brothers and two sisters and was educated at St. Francis Xavier's College then at the University of Liverpool.

Henry J. Watt

In 1907 Watt returned to Britain, taking up lectureships in psychophysiology at the University of Liverpool and, in 1908, in psychology at University of Glasgow.

Hugh Pemberton

Hugh Pemberton qualified MB ChB from the University of Liverpool in 1913 and started working at the David Lewis Northern Hospital in Liverpool.

John Edmund Sharrock Moore

Appointed in 1906 as Professor of Experimental and Pathological Cytology at the University of Liverpool.

John Percival Postgate

John Percival Postgate (24 October 1853 – 15 July 1926) was an English classicist, professor of Latin at the University of Liverpool from 1909 to 1920.

Joseph Proudman

He was awarded the Tate Technical Science entrance scholarship and entered the University of Liverpool in 1907.

King Alfred Chair of English Literature

The King Alfred Chair of English Literature was founded at the University of Liverpool, England in 1881.

LDRA Testbed

Liverpool Data Research Associates (LDRA) was founded in 1975 by Professor Michael Hennell to commercialize a software test-bed created to perform quality assessments on the mathematical libraries on which his Nuclear physics research at the University of Liverpool depended.

Linear code sequence and jump

The LCSAJ analysis method was devised by Professor Michael Hennell in order to perform quality assessments on the mathematical libraries on which his nuclear physics research at the University of Liverpool depended.

Lionel Barnett

The son of a Liverpool banker, Barnett was educated at Liverpool High School, Liverpool Institute, University College, Liverpool and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Margaret Simey

She also served as a magistrate in Liverpool, was awarded an honorary doctorate of the University of Liverpool for her services to the community, and in 2002 was offered the honour of Freeman of the City of Liverpool, but declined.

Martin Woodward

Martin Woodward was an academic in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool in England.

Monica Hughes

Both her parents worked at the University of Liverpool, where her father was a mathematician and her mother a biologist.

Paul R. Mather

He has been Associate Dean (Research Degrees) in the Faculty of Business and Economics and an Associate Professor at Monash University, Melbourne while also holding visiting appointments at the London School of Economics and the University of Liverpool Management School.

Peter Havard-Williams

Havard-Williams held senior posts in the libraries of Swansea University and the University of Liverpool.

Richard Hanitsch

From 1887 to 1895 he was employed as a demonstrator of zoology at University College, Liverpool.

Ritonavir

This discovery, which has drastically reduced the adverse effects and improved the efficacy of protease inhibitors and HAART, was first communicated in an article published in the journal AIDS in 1997 by researchers at the University of Liverpool.

Robots in Disguise

Plume (Delia Gaitskell) and Denim (Suzanne Powell) met and formed the band when they were both students at the University of Liverpool.

Shariffpura

Engineer Fazal ur Rahman Shariff did his degree in civil engineering from Liverpool, England in 1912 and returned to his home in Amritsar.

Sir Alfred Allen Booth, 1st Baronet

He was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Law (LL.D.) from the University of Liverpool.

Toby Adamson


During a brief sabbatical from the professional ranks, Adamson returned to the University of Liverpool to complete his degree in law.

Trinity College and Seminary

Prior to 2002, Trinity pursued endorsement of its courses with the University of Liverpool.

Wallace Spencer Pitcher

In 1955 he moved to King's College London as Reader in Geology and then in 1962 to the George Herdman Chair of Geology at the University of Liverpool where he remained until retirement in 1981.

William J. Crowe

Crowe was awarded doctor of laws (LL.D.) honorary degrees from numerous universities, including University of Liverpool, The George Washington University, and Knox College.

William Johnston of Liverpool

William Johnston of Woodslee, Bromborough, Cheshire (1841–1917) was an early benefactor of the University of Liverpool in Liverpool, England.

Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham

It was discovered in 1948 and in the subsequent years was sporadically examined by Alan Rowe and Labib Habachi, between 1994 and 2001 extensive excavations were undertaken by a University of Liverpool under the direction of Steven Snape.


Cindy Fazey

She has been Professor of International Drug Policy at the University of Liverpool since 1998.

Howard Newby

In January 2010 blogging platform WordPress.com suspended a number of blogs which it hosted after claims by the director of legal services at the University of Liverpool, Kevan Ryan, that some posts on them defamed Sir Howard.

Kenneth Dover

Dover received honorary degrees from the Universities of Oxford, St Andrews, Birmingham, Bristol, London, Durham, Liverpool, and Oglethorpe.

King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences

KSAU-HS has a number of licensing agreements to develop its academic programs with prestigious universities worldwide: University of Sydney (Australia); University of Liverpool (UK); South Alabama University (USA); Flinders University (Australia); Arkansas University (USA), Thomas Jefferson University (USA) University of Maryland (USA), Maastricht University (Netherlands), The University of Oklahoma (USA) and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (USA).

Lewis Booth

After completing his bachelor of engineering degree with honors in mechanical engineering at University of Liverpool, he started his career at British Leyland before joining Ford in 1978 as a financial analyst in Product Development for Ford of Europe.

Liverpool Cenotaph

In 1926, a competition was held to create a memorial using public funds, with Charles Reilly, professor of architecture at the University of Liverpool, as assessor.

Liverpool Data Research Associates

LDRA was founded in 1975 by Professor Michael Hennell to commercialize a software test-bed created to perform quality assessments on the mathematical libraries on which his Nuclear physics research at the University of Liverpool depended.

Master of Research

Although a relatively new degree, research Master's degrees are increasingly popular with a number of the Russell Group Universities such as Imperial College London, University of Manchester, University of Liverpool and the University of London as well as in universities with significant art and design departments such as the Faculty of Arts (University of Brighton) and University of the Arts London.

Michael Lund

Lund was born in March 1965 in Horbury, Yorkshire, and is a graduate of mathematics and applied physics at the then Manchester Polytechnic and holds a masters in pure mathematics from the University of Liverpool.

Red brick university

While the University of Liverpool is generally considered to be the original "red brick" university, the University of Birmingham was the first of the civic universities to gain independent university status in 1900 and the University has stated that the popularity of the term "red brick" owes to its own Chancellor's Court, constructed from Accrington red brick.

University of Health Sciences, Lahore

Prominent among them are Duke University, University of Texas Houston, University of Pittsburgh, Center of Disease Control (CDC) Atlanta, University of Liverpool, University of Glasgow, University of Nottingham, University of Reim France and University of Muenster Germany.

Wil Edmunds

Edmunds has a degree in music from Bretton Hall College, University of Leeds, and a masters degree in social psychology from the University of Liverpool.

William Reginald Halliday

He lectured in Greek History and Archaeology and the University of Glasgow (1911–1914) before becoming Rathbone Professor of Ancient History at the University of Liverpool (1914–1928).