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The order of precedence is based on their year of establishment as a university. Only Uppsala University (est. 1477 [1]) and Lund University (est. 1666 [2]) were actually founded as universities, whereas all the other universities were raised from högskola (university college) status to the higher university status after they had been founded.
Uppsala University (UU) (Swedish: Uppsala universitet) is a public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries still in operation.
The facility is named after Swedish physicist Anders Jonas Ångström and his son Knut Ångström, both of whom were professors at Uppsala University in the 19th century. [3] It was first inaugurated in 1997, [ 4 ] at Polacksbacken [ sv ] , next to a site that historically served the purpose of training the Uppland Regiment from 1680–1912.
The university college was originally established in 1998 and had around 4,300 registered students in 2007, many of them part-time and distance students. [2] The main building which used to be an old Whiskey distillery is located in the central part of Visby, between the city marina and the Almedalen park.
The first Liberal Arts degree program in Sweden was established at Gothenburg University in 2011, [50] followed by a Liberal Arts Bachelor Programme at Uppsala University's Campus Gotland in the autumn of 2013. [51] The first Liberal Arts program in Georgia was introduced in 2005 by American-Georgian Initiative for Liberal Education (AGILE ...
Kristina Edström (born 2 June 1958) is a Swedish Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Uppsala University.She also serves as Head of the Ångström Advanced Battery Centre (ÅABC) and has previously been both Vice Dean for Research at the Faculty of Science and Technology and Chair of the STandUp for Energy research programme.
ISP was founded in 1961 by Professor Tor Ragnar Gerholm at the Uppsala University Institute of Physics as a scholarship program called The International Seminar in Physics. The program provided scholarships for physics researchers from academic institutions in low-income countries.
Thomas Hakon Grönwall (1877–1932), mathematician best known for Grönwall's inequality, taught at Princeton and Columbia (studied in Uppsala and Stockholm, awarded Ph.D. by Uppsala University in 1898) [4] David Enskog (1884–1947), mathematician, Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (Ph.D. 1917) [5]