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The university hospital is actually older than the university, as it goes back to the earliest hospital, founded in Uppsala in 1302, and much later merged with the university clinic. This was used for 400 years until the great fire of 1702 which destroyed large parts of central Uppsala.
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.
A Högskola (= university college in English) is an institution of higher education, similar to a university but typically smaller and with PhD-rights in fewer areas. The right to award doctoral degrees is in Sweden given and monitored by the Swedish Higher Education Authority in the same way for universities and university colleges.
The Svedberg Laboratory [1] (TSL) is a university facility, based in Uppsala, Sweden. The activities at TSL are based around the particle accelerator Gustaf Werner cyclotron. The main activity is proton therapy for the treatment of cancer, based on an agreement between the Oncology clinic at Uppsala University Hospital and Uppsala University ...
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.
For his post-secondary education, Svedberg entered a chemistry program at Uppsala University in the early mid 1900s. [6] He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1905, his master's degree in 1907, and in 1908, he earned his Ph.D. [ 7 ]
Physics 1981 Uppsala University: Manne Siegbahn: Physics 1924 Uppsala University: Herbert A. Simon: Economics 1978 Carnegie Mellon University: Christopher A. Sims: Economics 2011 Princeton University: Jens Christian Skou: Chemistry 1997 Aarhus University: Richard Smalley: Chemistry 1996 Rice University: George E. Smith: Physics 2009 Bell Labs ...
As Uppsala University has one of only two faculties of theology in Sweden, and the older one of the two (the other is in Lund), most Swedish churchmen of note have actually graduated from the university. Israel Acrelius (1714–1800), Lutheran missionary to New Sweden; author of History of New Sweden