Excellence

Nobel Prize winners:

Physics 

  • JJ Thomson
  • CTR Wilson
  • William Lawrence Bragg
  • Niels Bohr
  • James Chadwick
  • PMS Blackett
  • Nevill Francis Mott
  • John Cockcroft
  • Andre Geim
  • Konstantin Novoselov

Physiology or Medicine

  • Archibald V Hill
  • John Sulston

Chemistry

  • Melvin Calvin
  • Ernest Rutherford
  • Arthur Harden
  • Walter Norman Howarth
  • Robert Robinson
  • Alexander Todd
  • John Charles Polanyi
  • Linus Carl Pauling
  • Michael Smith
  • George de Hevesy

Economic Sciences

  • John Richard Hicks
  • Arthur Lewis
  • Joseph E Stiglitz

Academic history

The University is built on the shoulders of academic giants and can lay claim to 25 Nobel Prize winners among its current and former staff and students.

Research

The last Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) was conducted in 2008 and confirmed The University of Manchester as one of the country's major research universities. For more in-depth information, see the RAE 2008 page.