The University of Chicago, abbreviated as Chicago in Chinese, located in Chicago, Illinois, USA, is one of the most famous private research universities in the world. This university is a member of association of american universities. The university ranks in the top ten in QS World University Rankings and Times World University Rankings all the year round. University of Chicago

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The University of Chicago, formerly known as the old university of Chicago founded by American Baptist Church, closed down on 1886 due to financial problems. The University of Chicago was founded in 1890 by John Davidson Rockefeller, an oil magnate. This university, formerly the old university of Chicago, closed down on 1886 due to financial problems. This university became a world-class private university at the beginning of the 20th century. The university officially started in June 1892 65438+ 10/. The university established the Business School 1898. 1902, Law School and Oriental College were established. 1933, the university rejected Hutchinson's attempt to promote the merger of the University of Chicago and Northwest University. During World War II, this university played an important role in the Manhattan Project. During this period, a large number of physicists gathered in universities, which established the position of universities in the field of natural science. This university is called "the birthplace of atomic energy". The university was told by the Associated Press that it has a large number of economic talents because it can attract and retain existing or future economic stars. Economists here dare to boldly challenge the current popular economic theory, and the school also encourages scholars to innovate independently. Since the 20th century, the university has continuously expanded its campus area and new teaching buildings. Since 20 1 1, the university has established a ten-story medical research center and Jules Gwenknapp Biomedical Discovery Center. The university celebrated its 20th anniversary on 20 10. Nowadays, universities provide students with professional courses of different degrees, such as bachelor's degree, master's degree and doctor's degree. The university has more than 65,438+06,000 students, including more than 65,438+000 foreign students from different countries around the world. This university has a strong faculty, of which more than 35% are professors. Over the years since its establishment, the school has trained a large number of outstanding graduates, including 98 Nobel Prize winners, 9 Fields Prize winners, 4 Turing Prize winners, 2 Pulitzer Prize winners and 15 professors who won the national medal of science award. More than 70 current professors are members of the National Academy of Sciences, 9 are members of the National Academy of Engineering, and 14 are members of the National Medical College, physicists, scientists and economists. Compared with Harvard, Yale and other universities, this university is the youngest, but it embraces the two university ideas of Humboldt and Newman with an open spirit, and combines the reality of American society to build a unique and outstanding organizational concept, research concept and teaching concept, making it a first-class university in the United States and even the world in a short time, and is known as "the first university in the United States". The students and researchers of this university have created the Chicago School in many fields of humanities and social sciences, including the famous Chicago School of Economics and the Chicago School of Sociology. The university is also the birthplace of legal economics and one of the most important research and teaching centers in economics, sociology, law, anthropology and other disciplines in the world. Since the Manhattan Project, Zhida University has gathered a large number of scientists. Under the leadership of Enrico Fermi, the "father of atomic energy", the university established the world's first controllable nuclear reactor ("Zhida No.1 Reactor"), which successfully opened the era of human atomic energy, and founded the first national laboratory in the United States, Argonne National Laboratory, and later the famous Fermi Laboratory, thus laying an important position in the field of natural science. The university initiated a quarterly system and a four-season and year-round curriculum system, allowing students to arrange their study time freely. Summer (June to August), autumn (September to 1 February), winter (1month to March) and spring (April to June). Full-time undergraduate courses need three to four quarters of academic rest, about 1 1 week before each quarter. The school year usually begins in late September and ends in mid-June. This university is very active in international activities. The school has also established cooperative relations with many famous higher education institutions in different countries around the world. Every year, universities send teachers and students to study or practice in foreign schools to accumulate experience. The university often participates in international conferences, seminars and other international projects every year. This university is one of the member schools of University Sports League (UAA) in sports. Emily Green Bucky, a well-known alumnus, 1946 Nobel Peace Prize, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics, milton friedman, Ernest Lawrence, paul samuelson. 1970 Chen ningyang who won the nobel prize in economics, 1957 Geoffrey Palmer who won the nobel prize in physics, new Zealand prime minister Hastings Banda, Malawi prime minister and Malawi president Marvin Braud, los Angeles city councilman andy king, barack obama's politician and former national security adviser Tsu Koon Koh, and the third chief minister of Malaysia robert todd lincoln. Lien Chan, the 35th Secretary of State of the United States, Lin Yifu, Vice President of the Republic of China (Taiwan Province Province), Jack markel, First Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, Vinod Thomas, Governor of Delaware, Director-General of Asian Development Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, former Senior Vice President of the World Bank, President of the World Bank, Catherine Dunham, US Deputy Secretary of Defense, Joshua maston, dancer and choreographer, Dan Peterman, winner of the National Art Medal, film director, artist Gavin Williamson, harpsichord player Henry Adkinson, Major League Baseball player craig robinson of St. Louis Browns, former head coach of Oregon State University and Michelle Obama's brother Roger Altman, Howard Marx, founder and senior chairman of Evercore, Peter Peterson, deputy director of the US Bureau of the Ministry of Finance, billionaire founder of Oak Capital Management, and Blackstone Group. Donald Pritzker, billionaire co-founder and former chairman, Emmanuel Roman, 20th Secretary of Commerce of the United States, member of Pritzker family, former president of Hyatt, and David Rubinstein, CEO of PIMCO, Zhu Changhong, co-founder and billionaire of Carlyle Group, EricAshby BaronAshby, Chief Information Officer of State Administration of Foreign Exchange, Howard wesley johnson, Vice President of Cambridge University, David Brooks, Dean of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, political commentator, The New York Times columnist, Roderick mcleish, senior editor of Standard Weekly and commentator of National Radio; Robert gallo, a journalist and writer, identified Vernon Johns, the first retrovirus, Paul ekman, a civil rights activist and pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, and George Willard Martin, an honorary professor at the University of California, San Francisco. Robert Johns, a pioneer in studying emotions and their relationship with facial expressions, and Yang Zhenning, a famous professor, won the Cui Qinuo Prize. Famous jurists, such as Mei Ruqian, Wu Jieping, Ye,, famous physicists and famous meteorologists, won the Nobel Prize. There are many libraries, museums, lecture halls, sports centers, cultural centers, many research institutes and experimental centers, dormitories, restaurants, clinics, student clubs and departments, schools of mathematics and science, biology, humanities, social sciences, graduate school of New University, school of mathematics and science (divided into four departments). Booth Business School, Law School, Theological Seminary, Harris Vocational College of Social Sciences are introduced. Chicago is the third largest city in the United States after new york and Los Angeles, the center of North American railway and aviation hub, and one of the major financial, futures and commodity trading centers in the United States. Located in the midwest of the United States, it belongs to Illinois, under the jurisdiction of Cook County, and faces Lake Michigan in the east. Urban climate belongs to temperate continental humid climate with four distinct seasons. Winter is cold, long and humid, with little sunshine. The average maximum temperature in winter is about 0℃, and the average minimum temperature is about-10℃. Summer is hot and humid, and the average maximum temperature in summer is about 30℃. Other information:

The University of Chicago is an American university. The University of Chicago, located in Chicago, the international financial center of the United States, is one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Many Chicago schools, such as "Chicago School of Economics", which focuses on humanities and social sciences, have emerged here, and many world Nobel Prize winners in economics have become one of the centers of world economics research.

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The University of Chicago was founded in 1890 by john rockefeller, an oil magnate, and is famous for its numerous Nobel Prize winners. Chinese Nobel laureates Yang Zhenning, Li Zhengdao and Cui Qi all received their PhDs in physics from the University of Chicago, and Li Yuanzhe was a chemistry professor at the University of Chicago. In addition, 9 Fields Prizes (the highest prize in mathematics in the world), 4 Turing Prizes (the highest prize in computer science in the world) and 22 Pulitzer Prize winners are working or studying at the University of Chicago. Since the Manhattan Project, a large number of scientists have gathered here, established the world's first controllable nuclear reactor ("Chicago No.1 Reactor", Chicago Reactor-1) and successfully opened the era of human atomic energy, founded the first national laboratory in the United States-Argonne National Laboratory, and later the famous Fermilab, thus establishing the important position of the University of Chicago in the field of natural science.