McGill University

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McGill University is the largest English of the four universities of Montreal and one of the oldest universities in Canada. It was named after the Scotsman James McGill (1744-1813), a prominent dealer in Montreal in the early 19th century.

  • 5.1 Significant work
  • 5.2 Financing
  • 5.3 Medicine 5.3.1 Montreal Neurological Institute

History

The establishment of the McGill University in 1821, was made ​​possible mainly due to the estate James McGill, of the newly founded Royal Institute for the Advancement of Learning ( RIAL ) left generous funding to establish a university. 1829, the first classes were held in the former country estate McGill. 1884 four women were first admitted to the university, among them the first female professor in Canada, Carrie Derick, who taught at McGill botany. Large donations enabled the establishment on the present campus and were able to lure the turn of the century eminent scientists like Ernest Rutherford at the University.

Students

McGill University offers 11 faculties at about 300 degree programs. In the winter quarter of 2006 a total of 33,258 students were enrolled at McGill University, including 23,559 at the undergraduate level and 7,375 at the graduate level. A total of 56.9 % of the students come from Quebec, 24.4% from the rest of Canada, and 6,183 (18.9% ) are international students.

International importance

On the list of international university rankings (World's Best Universities ) of 2011/12 she finds herself among the best universities in Canada - as in previous decades - at No. 1, among the most elite universities in the world they placed on 17, among the best courses in philosophy, sociology, medicine and psychology at 18, 15, 13 or 10 McGill is the world's Member of the Association of American Universities, an existing association of leading research-intensive since 1900, North American universities. In addition, she is a member of the University of the Arctic. She was instrumental in the development of the North American sports, for example, in the invention and history of ice hockey.

Famous people

Nobel Laureate

Other well-known alumni and staff of the University

Professors / Lecturers

  • Kevin Dean, Musician
  • Dimitri Dimakopoulos, professor of architecture
  • Donald O. Hebb Professor of Psychology
  • John Humphrey, a lawyer
  • John David Jackson, a physicist
  • January Jarczyk, jazz composition, jazz studies
  • Hans Jonas, philosopher
  • Raymond Klibansky, professor of philosophy
  • Peter Leuprecht, jurist ( International Law and Human Rights)
  • Henry Mintzberg, Professor of Economics ( completion 1962)
  • William Osler, physician
  • Jennifer Stoddart, is a lawyer ( reigning Canadian Privacy Commissioner )
  • Charles Taylor, philosopher and historian of ideas

Graduates

  • Jimmy Baikovicius, Uruguayan Manager
  • Zbigniew Brzezinski ( b. 1928 ), US-Politikwissenschaftler/Globalstratege/Sicherheitsberater under Jimmy Carter, completion 1950
  • Sir John Abbott (1821-1893), Canadian Prime Minister, completion 1854
  • Burt Bacharach ( b. 1928 ), American pianist and composer, graduated in 1948
  • Leonard Cohen ( b. 1934 ), Canadian singer, graduated in 1955
  • James Creighton, founder of ice hockey rules, completion 1880
  • Jake Eberts, film producer ( Gandhi, Dances with Wolves ), completion 1962
  • Alison Gopnik, developmental psychologist
  • Sir Wilfrid Laurier (1841-1919), Canadian Prime Minister, completion 1864
  • Danny Miller ( b. 1947 ), Professor of Strategy at HEC Montreal
  • James Naismith (1861-1939), inventor of basketball, completion 1887
  • Ahmad Nazif ( born 1952 ), Prime Minister of Egypt, PhD 1983
  • Trevor W. Payne ( born 1948 ), Canadian musician
  • Steven Pinker (born 1954 ), psychologist, graduated in 1976
  • Martin Raff ( b. 1938 ), Canadian neurologist and cell and molecular biologist, graduated in 1963
  • Moshe Safdie ( b. 1938 ), Israeli architect, graduated in 1961
  • William Shatner ( born 1931 ), Canadian actor (Star Trek), completion 1952
  • Charles Taylor ( born 1931 ), Canadian philosopher, completion 1952
  • Lionel Tiger ( born 1937 ), anthropologist
  • Justin Trudeau ( b. 1971 ), politician and leader of the Liberal Party
  • Vaira Vike -Freiberga ( born 1937 ), former Latvian president, PhD 1965

Among the 174,000 alumni of McGill University also include three astronauts and a total of eight Academy Award winner. 25 Olympic medals were won by (former) McGill students.

Research

Significant work

  • The research group led by Thomas Chang succeeded in the late eighties to replicate plastic a blood vessel with a comparable function.
  • Plexiglass comes from research of materials scientists.
  • John Humphrey (1905-1995) formulated on behalf of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was approved and promulgated in December 1948.
  • Ronald Melzack, psychologist, released in 1965 for the first time ( with Patrick D. Wall ) a pain theory.
  • Wilder Penfield (1891-1976) created the first time a functionally structured division of the brain.
  • Sir Ernest Rutherford published work on radioactivity, the basis for atomic physics were.

Financing

More than half of research funds (2005: 423 050 000 $ CAN ) relates the McGill University from the Canadian government. Just under a quarter come from the province of Québec and by private donors, foundations and investors. In 2005 /06, 27 patents for research at McGill have been issued.

Medicine

Canada's oldest medical school was founded in 1832. Today, in addition to the McGill University Health Centre ( MUHC ) with six clinics three other major hospitals Montréal's training locations of each year nearly 1,000 medical graduates. About 500 employees have nearly 100 million CAN $ research funds, which McGill makes by far the largest medical institution in the province of Quebec.

Montreal Neurological Institute

The Montreal Neurological Institute ( MNI) was founded in 1934 by Wilder Penfield as a hospital and research institute at the same time. First Brain mapping studies and to prepare the way for imaging and studies of patients with brain damage made ​​the MNI into a globally recognized and leading institution of neuroscience. The following researchers have done significant work on MNI:

Sports

McGill University is of some importance in sports. Since 1912, graduates or students of McGill active participated in all Olympic Games and won a total of 25 Olympic medals. The significance of the university for the development of the North American sport goes far beyond that. Many sporting inventions date back to McGill, such as the North American football, ice hockey, rugby (first North American game in Montreal ) and the basketball.

In the 1880s McGill had a decisive influence on the development of three of the four major North American team sports. Two games of the team of McGill against the selection of Harvard in May and October 1874 after the McGill rules set rule for McGill's rugby seen as the first games of both the American and the Canadian Footballs, which subsequently lead to the spread of American football in the Ivy League led. In the 1880s, a set of rules for ice hockey at McGill was developed and written down, which was as McGill rules for the first standard of even then regarded as " Canadian national pastime " game. Moreover, it was the physical education teacher and later the inventor of basketball James Naismith Student McGill.

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