Nagoya University

Nagoya University
founding	1939
Sponsorship	state
place	Nagoya
management	Seiichi Matsuo
Students	16,514 (2013)
Employee	3,214 (2013)
including professors	1,705
Website	www.nagoya-u.ac.jp

The Higashiyama campus

The Nagoya University ( Jap. 名古屋大学 , Nagoya daigaku , short Meidai or Nadai ( 名大 )) is a state university in Japan . The main campus is in Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya .

history

In 1871 the Temporary Medical School ( 仮 医 学校 , Kari igakkō ) was founded. This became the Public Medical School (from Aichi Prefecture) in 1878. In 1903 it developed into the Aichi Prefectural Medical School ( 愛 知 県 立 医学 専 門 学校 ), then in 1920 to the Aichi Prefectural Medical School ( 愛 知 県 立 医科大学 , Aichi-kenritsu ika daigaku ). The college became a state college in 1931 and was renamed Nagoya Medical College ( 名古屋 医科大学 , Nagoya ika daigaku ).

In 1939 the Imperial University of Nagoya ( 名古屋 帝国 大学 , Nagoya teikoku daigaku ) was founded, the last Imperial University . Nagoya Medical School became its medical school. In 1940 she founded the Faculty of Science and Engineering, which was divided into two faculties in 1942 and later moved to the new Higashiyama campus. The university was renamed Nagoya University in 1947.

In 1949 it was merged with three state colleges to form the new Nagoya University. These were: the Eighth High School ( 第八 高等学校 , Dai-hachi kōtō gakkō , founded in 1908), the Nagoya Business School ( 名古屋 経 済 専 門 学校 , Nagoya keizai semmon gakkō , founded in 1920) and the Okazaki Higher Normal School ( 岡 崎 師範学校 師範学校 , Okazaki kōtō shihan gakkō , founded in 1945). The former Eighth High School campus is now the Yamanohata campus of Nagoya Municipal University ; the former campus of the Nagoya Business School is now the Kawasumi campus of the Municipal University.

The university library consists of 2.9 million volumes, 1.4 million of which are foreign languages.

Well-known graduates are the molecular biologists Reiji and Tsuneko Okazaki who discovered the Okazaki fragments , the Toyota chairman Shōichirō Toyoda and the governor Reiji Suzuki . Ryōji Noyori , who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001, taught at the university.

Nobel Laureate Alumni

• Hiroshi Amano (* 1960), one of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the blue LED.
• Isamu Akasaki (* 1929), one of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the blue LED.
• Makoto Kobayashi (* 1944), one of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics .
• Toshihide Masukawa (* 1940), one of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics .
• Osamu Shimomura (1928–2018), one of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry .
• Ryōji Noyori (* 1938), one of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry .

Faculties

The University Hospital (on the Tsurumai campus)

• Higashiyama campus (in Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 35 ° 9 ′ 16.8 ″  N , 136 ° 58 ′ 0.9 ″  E, Coordinates: 35 ° 9 ′ 16.8 ″  N , 136 ° 58 ′ 0.9 ″  O ):
  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Faculty of Education
  • Faculty of Law
  • Faculty of Economics
  • Faculty of Computer Science and Sciences (English School of Informatics and Sciences )
  • Faculty of Science
  • Faculty of Engineering
  • Faculty of Agricultural Science
• Tsurumai campus (in Shōwa-ku, Nagoya, 35 ° 9 ′ 29.7 ″  N , 136 ° 55 ′ 19.3 ″  E ):
  • Faculty of Medicine

Web links

• Official website (Japanese and English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/about_nu/president/profile/index.html
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Profile Nagoya University 2013. p. 10 , accessed on May 4, 2014 (English). 
3. ↑ The official short form is Meidai , the same short form as Meiji University .