Founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, the University of Chicago was incorporated in 1890; William Rainey Harper became the university's first president in 1891, and the first classes were held in 1892. Both Harper and future president Robert Maynard Hutchins advocated for Chicago's curriculum to be based upon theoretical and perennial issues rather than applied sciences and commercial utility.
The university consists of the College of the University of Chicago, various graduate programs and interdisciplinary committees organized into four divisions, six professional schools, and a school of continuing education. Chicago is particularly well known for its professional schools, which include the Pritzker School of Medicine, the Booth School of Business, the Law School, and the Divinity School. The university enrolls approximately 5,000 students in the College and about 15,000 students overall.
University of Chicago scholars have played a major role in the development of various academic disciplines, including: the Chicago school of economics, the Chicago school of sociology, the law and economics movement in legal analysis, the Chicago school of literary criticism, the Chicago school of religion,[8] the school of political science known as behavioralism, and in the physics leading to the world's first man-made, self-sustaining nuclear reaction. The university is also home to the University of Chicago Press, the largest university press in the United States.
The University of Chicago is home to many prominent alumni. 89 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with the university as visiting professors, students, faculty, or staff, the fourth most of any institution in the world. When its affiliate, the Marine Biological Laboratory, is included, Chicago has produced more Nobel prize winners than any other university in the world. In addition, Chicago's alumni include 49 Rhodes Scholars, 9 Fields Medalists, 20 National Humanities Medalists and 13 billionaire graduates.
The main campus of the University of Chicago comprises of 211 sections of land (85.4 ha) in the Chicago neighborhoods of Hyde Park and Woodlawn, seven miles (11 km) south of downtown Chicago. The northern and southern bits of grounds are differentiated by the Midway Plaisance, an expansive, direct stop made for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. In 2011, Travel+Leisure recorded the college as a standout amongst the most lovely school grounds in the United States.
Numerous more established structures of the University of Chicago utilize Collegiate Gothic structural planning like that of the University of Oxford. For instance, Chicago's Mitchell Tower (left) was designed according to Oxford's Magdalen Tower (right).
The main structures of the University of Chicago Campus, which make up what is presently known as the Main Quadrangles, were a piece of an "expert arrangement" brought about by two University of Chicago trustees and plotted by Chicago modeler Henry Ives Cobb. The Main Quadrangles comprise of six quadrangles, each one encompassed by structures, bordering one bigger quadrangle. The structures of the Main Quadrangles were planned by Cobb, Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, Holabird & Roche, and other structural firms in a mixture of the Victorian Gothic and Collegiate Gothic styles, designed on the schools of the University of Oxford. (Mitchell Tower, for instance, is designed according to Oxford's Magdalen Tower, and the college Commons, Hutchinson Hall, recreates Christ Church Hall.)
After the 1940s, the Gothic style on grounds started to offer approach to current styles. In 1955, Eero Saarinen was contracted to add to a second ace arrangement, which prompted the development of structures both north and south of the Midway, including the Laird Bell Law Quadrangle (a complex planned by Saarinen); a progression of expressions structures; a building outlined by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for the college's School of Social Service Administration; a building which is to turn into the home of the Harris School of Public Policy Studies by Edward Durrell Stone, and the Regenstein Library, the biggest expanding on grounds, a brutalist structure composed by Walter Netsch of the Chicago firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. An alternate expert arrangement, outlined in 1999 and overhauled in 2004, delivered the Gerald Ratner Athletics Center (2003), the Max Palevsky Residential Commons (2001), South Campus Residence Hall and eating hall (2009), another kids' doctor's facility, and other development, extensions, and rebuilding efforts. In 2011, the college finished the glass arch molded Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, which gives a fabulous perusing space to the college library and keeps the requirement for an off-grounds book safe.
The site of Chicago Pile-1 is a National Historic Landmark and is checked by the Henry Moore model Nuclear Energy. Robie House, a Frank Lloyd Wright building gained by the college in 1963, is likewise a National Historic Landmark, as is room 405 of the George Herbert Jones Laboratory, where Glenn T. Seaborg and his group were the first to disconnect plutonium. Hitchcock Hall, an undergrad residence, is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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University of Chicago is one of the famous and largest University of the world. My cousin is the student of this University and he used to tell me about his Uni.
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