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Rutherford College, Kent
Rutherford College is the second oldest Colleges within UK Universities, college of the University of Kent. It is located on the university's Canterbury campus and was established in 1966. Namesake The college is named after Ernest Rutherford, the physicist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry. As Rutherford achieved fame in both Physics and Chemistry, it was felt that he was a particularly appropriate namesake given the university's original desire to break down the boundaries between disciplines.Graham Martin, ''From Vision to Reality: the Making of the University of Kent at Canterbury'' (University of Kent, University of Kent at Canterbury, 1990) pages 124-126 Rutherford was also an alumnus of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. College architecture The basic design of the college is to a large extent a mirror of Eliot College, Kent, Eliot College, and was inspired by Louis Kahn's design for a residential block at Bryn Mawr College in Pen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Kent
, motto_lang = , mottoeng = Literal translation: 'Whom to serve is to reign'(Book of Common Prayer translation: 'whose service is perfect freedom')Graham Martin, ''From Vision to Reality: the Making of the University of Kent at Canterbury'' (University of Kent at Canterbury, 1990) page 36 As Martin notes "Our former Information Officer has ventured the opinion that Cranmer would not have got very high marks had this phrase appeared in an O-Level Latin paper!" , top_free_label = , top_free = , type = Public , established = , closed = , founder = , parent = , affiliation = , affiliations = Universities UK SGroup European Universities' Network EUA ACU Eastern ARCUniversities at Medway , religious_affiliation = , academic_affiliation = , endowment = £5.528 million (2018) , budget = , officer_in_charge = , chairman = , chairperson = , chancellor = Gavin Esler , president = , vice-president = , superintendent = , vice_chancellor = Karen C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
