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The history of Imperial College London, 1907-2007 : higher education and research in science, technology, and medicine /

This is the first major history of Imperial College London. The book tells the story of a new type of institution that came into being in 1907 with the federation of three older colleges. Imperial College was founded by the state for advanced university-level training in science and technology, and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gay, Hannah
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific Pub., ©2007.
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  • Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Introduction
  • Ch. 2 Before Imperial : the colleges that federated in 1907
  • Ch. 3 founding of Imperial College
  • Ch. 4 Governance and innovation, 1907-43
  • Ch. 5 Imperial College during the First World War
  • Ch. 6 Continuity within the three old colleges, 1907-45
  • Ch. 7 Imperial science at Imperial College
  • Ch. 8 Imperial College during the Second World War
  • Ch. 9 Expansion : post-war to Robbins, 1945-67 (part one)
  • Ch. 10 Expansion : post-war to Robbins, 1945-67 (part two)
  • Ch. 11 Corporate and social life
  • Ch. 12 making of the modern college, 1967-85 part one : governance in a new political climate
  • Ch. 13 making of the modern college, 1967-85 part two : academic restructuring
  • Ch. 14 Diversifying the curriculum
  • Ch. 15 expanding college, 1985-2001 ... part one : governance and the medical school mergers
  • Ch. 16 expanding college, 1985-2001 ... part two : some academic developments.