Norman (Oklahoma)

Cleveland County

40-52500

Norman is a town about 35 km south of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The city has 110 925 inhabitants ( 1 July 2010), of which 25,000 students. Norman is right on Interstate 35, which runs north to Oklahoma City and south to Dallas.

Geography

Norman has an area of ​​490.8 km ² with 95 694 inhabitants ( 2000 census ). The urban area is situated at about 350 m altitude. Outside of the actual precincts of the environment is taken in the west of the city of prairie, to the east lies the artificial lake Lake Thunderbird, which impounds the Little River, in an open woodland landscape ( Cross Timbers ).

University of Oklahoma

In Norman is the main campus of the University of Oklahoma (abbreviated OU). It is home to the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art The Fred Jones Jr. Museum is home to the Weitzenhoffer Collection, a major art collection with works by, among others, by Mary Cassatt, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Pierre- Auguste Renoir, and Camille Pissarro. In addition, the National Weather Center part of the OU, which deals among other things with the study of hurricanes and includes various institutes of NOAA.

Train

In addition to the 20 public elementary and middle schools Normans the youth of the city are divided into two high schools: Norman High School and Norman North High School, from which the latter is newer.

Sports

The football team of OU went on to win the College Championship, the BIG 12, including in 2000. Declared enemy of OU team is the team of the University of Texas (UT ). OU plays against UT, the game takes place in Dallas.

The nickname of the team is " Sooners ", their colors are - according to the colors of the University - dark red and white, with the mascot of the " Sooner Schooner " is.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Candy Clark ( born 1947 ), actress
  • Champian Fulton ( born 1985 ), jazz musician
  • James Garner ( b. 1928 ), actor
  • Vince Gill ( born 1957 ), country singer
  • Karl Guthe Jansky (1905-1950), physicist and radio engineer, discovered the radio emission of our galaxy
  • Eugene Stanley ( born 1941 ), physicist
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