Manchester is the birthplace of nuclear physics and this year marks 100 years since Ernest Rutherford ‘split the atom’ at The University of Manchester…or does it? In 1917, the Nobel Prize winner ...

The University of Manchester has become the first British institution to join the prestigious Universities Research Association (URA).URA is a consortium of 86 research-intensive universities – ...

The university has just 275 places on its undergraduate physics course, but more than 1,000 applied in 2012 – and this year’s figure is expected to be even higher.

The history of physics is filled with world-changing experiments. ... The University of Manchester in 1912. Amongst the students Ernest oversaw at the University were Hans Geiger, ...

A new 33-storey student accommodation block could be built in a city centre if plans are approved. Developers Vita Group want to build on a vacant plot at the corner of Manchester's Hulme Street ...

THE annual lectures on recent advances in physics arranged by the Manchester and District Local Section of the Institute of Physics were held in the Physics Department of the University of ...

The landmark Owens Park Tower could be demolished under new plans for Manchester University's Fallowfield campus. University bosses have unveiled proposals to replace existing accommodation with ...

In 1985, Block founded a winter conference at the Aspen Center for Physics on elementary particle physics — with an organized ski race. The original conference has now grown into a series which, in ...

Manchester could soon be getting a new student accommodation block with more than 860 beds, social spaces and a gym.

COVID-19: University of Manchester students occupy building in protest over 'lack of support' A group are occupying the decommissioned Owens Park Tower on the Fallowfield campus.

Block’s future wife, Crissy Kantor, is a resident of Manchester and is the owner of Chill Spa on Hanover Street. For now, Kantor travels back and forth to New Mexico to be with her fiancée.

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