The Victoria University of Manchester developed out of Owens College, which was founded in 1851, and from 1872 incorporated the Royal School of Medicine and Surgery, which had been formed in 1824 as a ...

The increasingly high standards of education and the beginnings of research at the technical college raised questions about its relationship with the newly independent Victoria University of ...

The honour in fact belongs to New Zealander Sir Ernest Rutherford, who demonstrated atoms could be split during experiments at Victoria University of Manchester in 1919. Dr James Sumner ...

Formed in 2004 through a merger of Victoria University and Umist, the 40,000 student campus is one of Britain's largest and most prestigious. It is renowned for its medical, nuclear, and physical ...

Many of those leaping on it suggested the honour was an Anglo-New Zealander one, as it was Sir Ernest Rutherford, a Kiwi scientific genius based at the then-Victoria University of Manchester ...