Nagoya University |
名古屋大学 |
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校训 |
None |
建立于 |
Founded 1871,
Chartered 1920 |
类型 |
Public (National) |
校长 |
Michinari Hamaguchi |
教职员工 |
1,793 |
本科生 |
9,818 |
研究生 |
5,993 |
位置 |
Nagoya, Aichi, Japan |
校园 |
Urban,
3.2 km² |
颜色 |
Green |
Mascot |
None |
网址 |
www.nagoya-u.ac.jp |
Nagoya University (名古屋大学, Nagoya daigaku), abbreviated to Meidai (名大)}}, is a Japanese national university headquartered in Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, and is considered as one of the most prestigious universities in Japan.
Nagoya University traces its roots back to 1871 when it was a temporary medical school. In 1939 it became Nagoya Imperial University. In 1947 it was renamed Nagoya University. In 2004 it became a National University Corporation.
The ideal written in the Nagoya University Academic Charter is to encourage the intelligentsia with courage by providing an education which respects independent thought.
While the majority of its students come from Tōkai region, Nagoya University has a good portion of students from all over Japan.
It also receives many students from abroad. Currently there are over 1300 foreign students (150 undergraduate) from 78 countries studying in the various faculties of Nagoya University. The majority of them are from China (47%, as of May 1, 2009) and Korea (9.5%). Among other countries, Taiwan, Indonesia, Viet Nam, Malaysia, Cambodia and Uzbekistan are represented by more than 30 students. The United States and Brazil with 16 students each are the most represented non-Asian countries.
Dr. Ryoji Noyori, one of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners spent most of his academic career researching and teaching at the university.
Reiji Okazaki (岡崎令治) , discoverer of the Okazaki fragments, graduated from Nagoya and was a professor at the university .
Yoshinori Kidani, discoverer of the cancer drug oxaliplatin
Faculties and Graduate Schools
Faculties
- Law
- Medicine
- Engineering
- Letters
- Science
- Agriculture
- Economics
- Education
- Information Culture
Graduate Schools
Nagoya University Hospital
- Educational Glowing
- Law
- Economics
- Arts and Sciences
- Science
- Pluralistic Mathematics
- Engineering
- Life Sciences and Agriculture
- Medicine
- International Language Culture
- International Development (GSID)
- Environment
- Information Science
Notable alumni and faculty members
- Reiji Okazaki and Tsuneko Okazaki, Pioneering molecular biologists
- Ryoji Noyori,Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001
- Makoto Kobayashi,Nobel Prize in Physics 2008
- Toshihide Maskawa,Nobel Prize in Physics 2008
- Osamu Shimomura,Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008
- Shoichiro Toyoda, Ex-CEO of Toyota Motor
参考文献
- ^ Tokyo's Meiji University's 明大 is pronounced identically
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Nagoya University |
- The Nagoya University English website
- Nagoya Repository - collection of scholarly papers and dissertations by the faculty and students of Nagoya University.
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