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, abbreviated to , is a Japanese national university
Japanese national university

As of 2007, there are 87 in Japan, while there are 89 public universities and 568 private universities. National universities, especially former imperial universities, tend to be held in higher regards in higher education in Japan than private or public universities....
 headquartered in Chikusa-ku, Nagoya
Chikusa-ku, Nagoya

Chikusa is a wards of Japan in the eastern part of the city of Nagoya, Aichi in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It has a number of large parks such as Higashiyama Park and Heiwa Park, is the home to the Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens, and contains the Higashiyama Sky Tower....
, and is considered as one of the most prestigious universities in Japan.

Nagoya University traces its roots back to 1871 when it was a temporary medical school. In 1939 it became Nagoya Imperial University. In 1947 it was renamed Nagoya University. In 2004 it became a National University Corporation
Japanese national university

As of 2007, there are 87 in Japan, while there are 89 public universities and 568 private universities. National universities, especially former imperial universities, tend to be held in higher regards in higher education in Japan than private or public universities....
.

Their ideal written in the Nagoya University Academic Charter is encouraging the intelligentsia with courage by practice of education which respect independent.

While the majority of its students come from Tokai region
Tokai region

The is a sub-region of the Chubu region in Japan that runs along the Pacific Ocean. The name means "East sea" and comes from the Tokaido, one of the Edo Five Routes....
, Nagoya University has a good portion of students from all over Japan.

It also receives many students from abroad.






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, abbreviated to , is a Japanese national university
Japanese national university

As of 2007, there are 87 in Japan, while there are 89 public universities and 568 private universities. National universities, especially former imperial universities, tend to be held in higher regards in higher education in Japan than private or public universities....
 headquartered in Chikusa-ku, Nagoya
Chikusa-ku, Nagoya

Chikusa is a wards of Japan in the eastern part of the city of Nagoya, Aichi in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It has a number of large parks such as Higashiyama Park and Heiwa Park, is the home to the Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens, and contains the Higashiyama Sky Tower....
, and is considered as one of the most prestigious universities in Japan.

Nagoya University traces its roots back to 1871 when it was a temporary medical school. In 1939 it became Nagoya Imperial University. In 1947 it was renamed Nagoya University. In 2004 it became a National University Corporation
Japanese national university

As of 2007, there are 87 in Japan, while there are 89 public universities and 568 private universities. National universities, especially former imperial universities, tend to be held in higher regards in higher education in Japan than private or public universities....
.

Their ideal written in the Nagoya University Academic Charter is encouraging the intelligentsia with courage by practice of education which respect independent.

While the majority of its students come from Tokai region
Tokai region

The is a sub-region of the Chubu region in Japan that runs along the Pacific Ocean. The name means "East sea" and comes from the Tokaido, one of the Edo Five Routes....
, Nagoya University has a good portion of students from all over Japan.

It also receives many students from abroad. The majority of them are from the USA, China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
, Korea
Korea

Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries, a civilization, and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia....
, and Indonesia
Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
. Currently there are over 1000 foreign students studying at various faculties of Nagoya University.

Dr. Ryoji Noyori
Ryoji Noyori

is a Japanese chemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001. Noyori shared half of the prize with William S. Knowles for the study of chirally catalyzed hydrogenations; the second half of the Prize went to K....
, one of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Pri...
 winners spent most of his academic career researching and teaching there.

Reiji Okazaki
Reiji Okazaki

Reiji Okazaki was a Japanese molecular biologist known for his research in DNA replication and especially for describing the role of so-called Okazaki fragments which he discovered working with his wife Tsuneko Okazaki in 1968....
 , discoverer of Okazaki fragment
Okazaki fragment

An Okazaki fragment is a relatively short fragment of DNA created on the lagging strand during DNA replication. The lengths of Okazaki fragments are between 1,000 to 2,000 nucleotides long in E....
s, graduated from Nagoya and was a professor there.

Yoshinori Kidani, discoverer of the cancer drug oxaliplatin
Oxaliplatin

Oxaliplatin is a platinum-based chemotherapy medication in the same family as cisplatin and carboplatin. It is typically administered in combination with fluorouracil and leucovorin in a combination known as FOLFOX for the treatment of colorectal cancer....


Faculties and Graduate Schools


Faculties

  • Law
  • Medicine
  • Engineering
  • Letters
  • Science
  • Agriculture
  • Economics
  • Education
  • Information Culture


Graduate Schools

  • Educational Glowing
  • Law
  • Economics
  • Arts and Sciences
  • Science
  • Pluralistic Mathematics
  • Engineering
  • Life Sciences and Agriculture
  • Medicine
  • International Language Culture
  • International Development (GSID
    GSID

    GSID is a Faculty of Nagoya University....
    )
  • Environment
  • Information Science


Notable alumni and faculty members

  • Ryoji Noyori
    Ryoji Noyori

    is a Japanese chemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001. Noyori shared half of the prize with William S. Knowles for the study of chirally catalyzed hydrogenations; the second half of the Prize went to K....
    ,Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001
  • Makoto Kobayashi
    Makoto Kobayashi (physicist)

    is a Japanese people physicist well-known for his work on CP-violation. His article "CP Violation in the Renormalizable Theory of Weak Interaction" written with Toshihide Maskawa is the third most cited high energy physics paper of all time as of 2007....
    ,Nobel Prize in Physics 2008
  • Toshihide Maskawa
    Toshihide Maskawa

    is a Japanese people theoretical physicist well-known for his work on CP-violation. His article "CP Violation in the Renormalizable Theory of Weak Interaction" written with Makoto Kobayashi is the third most cited high energy physics paper of all time as of 2006....
    ,Nobel Prize in Physics 2008
  • Osamu Shimomura
    Osamu Shimomura

    is a Japanese people organic chemist/scientist and marine biologist, and Professor Emeritus at Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Boston University Medical School....
    ,Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008


External links

  • - collection of scholarly papers and dissertations by the faculty and students of Nagoya University.