Harvard University, located in Massachusetts, USA, is a private research university. The current principal is Lawrence Barker, and the school motto is "Truth". The school has three campuses: Cambridge Campus, Alstom Campus and Changmu Campus, with a total area of 4,882 acres and a building area of 2 1 565,000 square feet.
Among them, there are 1 1 colleges in Cambridge campus, and 4 colleges in Alstom and Changmu campus. There are 46 undergraduate majors and 134 graduate majors in the whole school. As of 20 14, Harvard University has about 2,400 faculty members.
Major achievements
1 and 1922, the medical school completed insulin injection for the first time in England.
2. During the period of1954, john franklin enders, a scientist from Boston Children's Hospital, and his team won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their successful artificial cultivation of poliovirus.
3. During the period of1960, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center completed the pacemaker implantation for the first time.
4. 196 1 year, Georg Von Békésy won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the physical mechanism of sound analysis and transmission in the inner ear cochlea.
5.65438-0962, james watson, a molecular biologist, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his theory of DNA double helix model.
6. 197 1 year, simon smith kuznets, the father of gross national product, won the Nobel Prize in Economics that year.
7.65438-0972, Kenneth Joseph Arrow shared the Nobel Prize in Economics with John Hicks for his outstanding contribution to the general equilibrium theory.
8.65438-0973, Huaxi Leontiefu won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his research on input-output analysis methods.
9. 1976, William Lipscomb, an inorganic chemist, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his research on the structure of borane.