University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as the top 50 public universities in the United States, has always performed well in the engineering field. Not only is undergraduate engineering in the forefront in the United States, but it has also achieved good results in postgraduate education.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), one of the public ivy, is located in Urbana and Champaign, Illinois, USA. Founded in 1867, it is the flagship school of the University of Illinois system and one of the most prestigious public universities in the United States, especially famous for science and engineering.
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Urbana-Champaign is one of the founding members of the "Top Ten" and one of the 60 members of association of american universities.
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, also commonly called "University of Illinois", now has 65,438+07 colleges and more than 300 courses and professional programs. Its School of Information Science, School of Engineering and Department of Psychology are among the best in China.
Outstanding alumni:
John bardeen, a professor of physics, invented the transistor together with bratton and shockley, and won the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics. Together with Leon Cooper and John schrieffer, he founded the theory of cryogenic superconductivity (BCS) and won the 1972 Nobel Prize in physics.
Jack kilby, one of the two inventors of integrated circuit (IC), won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000.
Anthony leggett, a professor of physics, won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics with Alexei A. Abri and Vitaly L.Ginzburg*** for his pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids.
Paul Lauterper, a professor of chemistry, won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine with peter Mansfield for his pioneering discovery of visualizing different structures through magnetic vibration.
Rosalyn sussman yalow, a medical physicist, won the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing radioimmunoassay of polypeptide hormones, and was the second female scientist to win the Nobel Prize.
Edward adelbert doisy, a biochemist, shared the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Henrik Damme for discovering vitamin K and its structure and physiological function.