英国帝国理工学院：化学系
【简介】
In September 1995 the Chemistry Department celebrated its sesquicentenary, for it was in 1845 that the Royal College of Chemistry (RCC) was founded, the ancestor both of their present chemistry department and of Imperial College itself. During the early part of the nineteenth century there was a growing awareness that practical aspects of the experimental sciences were not well taught and that in this country the teaching chemistry in particular had fallen behind that in Germany. Experimental chemists like Liebig at Giessen and Bunsen at Gottingen had helped to make the teaching of chemistry there a national priority, and a flourishing German chemical industry was growing. In London in the early 1840's a movement was formed to set up an institute to teach practical chemistry; funds were raised from 76 MP's, 54 peers and 760 others; donors included Peel, Disraeli and Gladstone, and a Royal College of Chemistry (RCC) was set up in 1845.

The Prince Consort was an enthusiastic supporter and, through his contacts in Germany, persuaded August von Hofmann, then only 28, to be the first Professor. The college opened in 1845 with 26 students at 16 Hanover Square (the building still stands). Hofmann was an inspired choice: he was a charismatic teacher and became a chemist of international renown. However, the college had financial troubles and in 1848 had to abandon Hanover Square and take cheaper premises at 299 Oxford Street. The move was not accomplished without some difficulty: Hofmann relinquished his free personal accommodation in Hanover Square and gave up part of his salary, but the college secretary refused to move from his free accommodation and had to be evicted by force. In 1872, with Government support (secured largely with the help of Lyon Playfair, himself a distinguished inorganic chemist) the college moved to the unused building of the School of Naval Architecture in Exhibition Road, South Kensington (now th e Henry Cole wing of the Victoria and Albert Museum).

There were now physics, mathematics and other departments and in 1881 the famous natural historian T. H. Huxley became Dean. By 1900 the RCC had acquired its present name, the Royal College of Science (RCS). In 1906 the chemistry and physics departments moved to a new building designed by Sir Aston Webb in what is now called Imperial College Road, and in 1907 Imperial College was founded by a combination of the RCS, the Royal School of Mines and the City and Guilds Institute. In 1970, sadly, much of that building was demolished to make way for the present chemistry department edifice, but some of the old building remains in use; it is listed and has recently been cleaned and refurbished with generous help from the Wolfson Foundation. Many famous chemists were and are at the department. Hofmann is still remembered for his fundamental contributions to organic chemistry and his successor, Sir Edward Frankland, was a pioneer of organometalic chemistry of theories of chemical bonding.

Two famous early RCC students were William Perkin. discoverer of the aniline dye mauveine and founder of the British dyestuffs industry, and the great polymath William Crookes who discovered the element thallium and did much fundamental work in physics and radiochemistry. More recent figures include Sir Patrick Linstead, discoverer of the important phthalocyanine dyes and Richard Barrer, developer of zeolites which have become of tremendous importance in the petroleum industry. Two chemists received Nobel Prizes: Sir Derek Barton for his research on organic conformational analysis and Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson for his organometalic work. Sir Derek died in 1998. Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson died in 1997.

Many professors of chemistry up and down the country and abroad, and many leading industrial chemists, received their training here. It is one of the few chemistry departments in the country to be given the highest grades both in the research selectivity assessment and in the recent Higher Education Funding Council's teaching assessment. Hofmann would be as proud of the department as it is today as he was of the RCC 150 years ago.

Department of Chemistry,
Imperial College London.
South Kensington campus, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
Head of Department's office: +44 20 7594 5717
UG Admissions: +44 20 7594 5721
PG Admissions: +44 20 7594 5864
Fax: +44 20 7594 5804.

英国帝国理工学院：化学工程与化学工艺系
【简介】
The aim of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology is to be one of the world's leading institutions in both the teaching and research of chemical engineering and technology.

Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology at Imperial College London is the largest such Department in a U.K. University. It is also the only one to have been awarded the highest rating, 5-star, in the 1996 Research Assessment Exercise. They attribute their success to the wide range of skills and expertise of their academic staff and the strategies they use to deploy these in understanding and solving fundamental problems related to industrial processes, defined in the widest possible way. Their interests range from the microscopic - e.g. molecular organisation and interactions - to the megascale - e.g. design and optimisation of whole distribution networks. Their expertise lies both in mathematical analysis and modelling as well as in experimental investigation and in both they deploy, and indeed often devise themselves, the most up-to-date methods.

They work with the Chemicals, Oil and Gas, Pharmaceuticals and Processing Industries in a variety of collaborations and interactions.

The extensive and wide ranging research in the Department has been grouped into six programmes:

ACRE Applied Catalysis and Reaction Engineering
BSE Biological and Separations Engineering
CFS Combustion, Fuels and Safety
MET Materials Engineering and Technology
MFS Multiphase Fluid Systems
PSE Process Systems Engineering

Each is organised by a Programme Co-ordinator and these, collectively, form the Research Committee - the group that provides strategic advice to the Department on all research matters. Many staff will be members of more than one programme, and much collaborative work is undertaken between the programmes - e.g. modelling expertise from PSE with experimental work in BSE.

Postal address
Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology
South Kensington Campus
Imperial College London
SW7 2AZ. U.K.

Tel:
Departmental office +44 (0)20 7594 5605
College switchboard +44 (0)20 7589 5111
Fax:
Departmental office +44 (0)20 7594 5604

英国布拉德福大学生命科学学院：化学与法庭科学系
【简介】
Chemistry research and teaching has been pursued at what is now the main university campus for more than 100 years. Their teaching is built on tradition of research in the chemical and forensic sciences especially in the synthetic and analytical branches of these disciplines. Research in the Department of Chemical and Forensic Sciences occurs in the areas of analytical, bio-organic chemistry and catalysis and surface science, forensic, inorganic, organic, polymer and theoretical chemistry. Synthetic chemistry and the molecular characterisation of materials occurs in most of these areas.

The Department of Chemical and Forensic Sciences is formally part of the Bradford School of Pharmacy. The School is one of the largest of its kind in the UK with over 1200 undergraduate students, 120 postgraduate students, 70 academic staff and 50 support staff. The Department forms one of six academic areas in the School of Life Sciences. It is self-contained for both chemical and forensic investigation and teaching with well-equipped research and undergraduate laboratories, lecture rooms, staff offices, electronic and glass-blowing workshops and chemical stores all being housed in the Horton Building on the University's main campus (departmental floor plan).

contact:

Department of Chemical and Forensic Sciences
Bradford School of Pharmacy
School of Life Sciences, University of Bradford
Richmond Road, Bradford BD7 1DP

Telephone: 01274 233766
Facsimile: 01274 235350

英国伯明翰大学化学学院(生物、物理、高分子化学)
【简介】
The School of Chemical Sciences is a vibrant and dynamic department set in a campus environment in Britain's second city. As a School, they pride educational and research achievements and place particular emphasis on offering interdisciplinary programmes that address the new challenges of the 21st century.

The School accommodates around 25 academic staff, about 30 postdoctoral research workers, and over 90 research students registered for PhD or MPhil degrees, as well as technical and clerical support staff.

The standing of the research conducted in the School of Chemical Sciences has been recognised by the award of a grade 5 in the 1996 HEFCE Research Assessment Exercise. The School is one of the best-equipped in the United Kingdom and the University and Research Councils have made very significant investments in the research infrastructure. Following these investments, the School is in a strong position to play a leading role in research well into the future.

Researchers have access to seven NMR spectrometers (both solution and solid state) offering high-field and multinuclear capabilities, five mass spectrometers, with linked gas chromatography and liquid chromatography, state of the art materials characterisation facilities (X-ray diffraction, magnetic and electrical measurements), ESR, FTIR, UV and atomic absorption spectrometers. The School is also equipped with excellent computer facilities and a general purpose IT laboratory. It has its own chromatography laboratory possessing GLC and HPLC equipment.

英国伯明翰大学：化工系
【简介】
Chemical Engineering at Birmingham developed from the Department of Oil Engineering which was founded in the early 1900's. Chemical Engineering was recognised as a discipline in the late 1940's which was when the Department changed its name to its current title. Chemical Engineering at Birmingham prides itself on being up to date and in addressing the needs of industry and they have recently formed the Research Centre for Formulation Engineering.

Formulation Engineering is the most modern aspect of today's chemical engineering. It concerns itself with products rather than processes. It is all about delivering the right molecule in the right place at the right time, whether that molecule is a drug targeted to somewhere in the body, part of a chocolate bar that has to taste and feel OK in someone's mouth, or many other examples.

Research

- Formulation Engineering Research Centre
- Interdisciplinary Research Centre (IRC)