Manchester University

Manchester has traditionally been strong in the sciences; it is where the nuclear nature of the atom was discovered by Ernest Rutherford, and the world's first electronic stored-program computer was built at the university. Notable scientists associated with the university include physicists Ernest Rutherford, Osborne Reynolds, Niels Bohr, James Chadwick, Arthur Schuster, Hans Geiger, Ernest Marsden and Balfour Stewart. Contributions in mathematics were made by Paul Erdős, Horace Lamb and Alan Turing. The university has at least as strong a heritage in the humanities and social sciences: major names include William Stanley Jevons and Sir Arthur Lewis in economics; Samuel Alexander, Dorothy Emmet and Alasdair MacIntyre in philosophy, Thomas Tout, Sir Lewis Namier, and A.J.P. Taylor in history; Eugène Vinaver in French; James Noel Adams in Latin. One of the great polymaths of the twentieth century, Michael Polanyi, was professor of physical chemistry for fifteen years before transferring to a specially created …