Columbia University (hereinafter referred to as Columbia University), founded in 1754, is a king's college chartered by King George II of England. It is a member of the "Ivy League" composed of seven oldest universities in the United States. 1767 school established the first medical school in the United States to award a doctorate in medicine.
1858, Columbia College established Law School. 1896, the school board officially decided to use the name "Columbia University".
Columbia University offers 35,750 courses, including all liberal arts and professional courses such as architecture, art, business, dentistry, engineering, international affairs, journalism, law, library services, medicine and social work. The main undergraduate colleges are: Columbia College, College of General Education (Adult College) and College of Engineering and Applied Science. Other colleges include: Business School, Library Service College, Law School, Art College, Arts and Sciences College, Social Work College, Internal Medicine and Surgery College, Public Health College, Dental and Oral Surgery College and Nursing College.
The affiliated colleges of Columbia University include Barnard College (Undergraduate Women's College), Teachers College, United Theological Seminary and Jewish Theological Seminary. In addition, there are many research institutes in 12. Columbia University has schools of architecture, business, education, international affairs, journalism, law, medicine, nursing and social work. graduate department includes art history, astronomy, biological sciences, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, physics, geology, psychology, sociology, philosophy, politics, religion, film, history, economics, English, French, Spanish and East Asia.
Since the promulgation of 190 1 Nobel Prize, 48 scholars who have studied or worked in Columbia University have won this honor. In addition, seven American scientists won the Nobel Prize for their research results in the Puping Physics Laboratory, which was established in 1927.
Among the faculty of Columbia University, 8 are winners of the National Science Medal, 89 are current members of the American Academy of Art, and 42 are current members of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Isaac. Asimov is an American biochemist, writer and prolific writer, who has made great achievements in writing science fiction and popular science books.
James. Cagney is an American actor, and 1974 won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Film Academy.
Look. Greg, an American baseball player, played 2 130 games in a row during 1925- 1939, setting an unprecedented baseball record.
Ella. George gershwin, American lyric poet and composer. Gershwin's brother.
Oscar. Hammerstein is an American lyric poet and musical comedy writer, and an influential dramatist in the history of musical comedy development. The musical comedy The Sound of Music, which is familiar and loved by China audiences, is one of his works.
Lillian hellman is an American playwright.
Langston. Hughes is an African-American poet and writer, who opened a realistic road for African-American literature.
Margaret. Meade, an American feminist, is famous for her research on unrecorded peoples in the Pacific.
Thomas. Merton is an American Catholic monk, poet and prolific writer.
American physicist I.I. Rabbi (1944) won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the method of observing atomic spectrum by using the magnetic vibration of atomic beam and molecular beam (1937).
Michael. American inventor and pioneer of modern physicist.
George. Siegel is an American sculptor.
Lionel. Trilling is an American literary critic and teacher. His comments are very insightful.
Henry. Schultz, the pioneer of American econometrics.
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Jane. Kaul is a very successful American playwright and actor.
Among the alumni of Columbia University are China celebrities, Feng Youlan, Hu Shi and nuclear scientist Jiang.