Imperial College London embodies and delivers world class scholarship, education and research in science, engineering and medicine, with particular regard to their application in industry, commerce and healthcare.
Imperial College London was established in 1907 through the merger of the Royal College of Science, the City and Guilds College and the Royal School of Mines. Since this beginning, St Mary's Hospital Medical School and the National Heart and Lung Institute merged with the College in 1988 and 1995 respectively. The Charing Cross and Westminster and Royal Postgraduate Medical Schools merged with the College in 1997 and the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology in 2000. This completed the formation of the Imperial College School of Medicine, now the Faculty of Medicine. The most recent merger took place in 2000 with Wye College, giving Imperial College London its current academic complement.
Many great names are associated with Imperial. Among them are:
- Thomas H. Huxley, nineteenth century scientist
- H.G. Wells, author
- Sir Alexander Fleming and Sir Ernst Chain, discoverers of penicillin
- W.E. Dalby, railway engineer
- W.H. Perkin, inventor of the first aniline dye
- Patrick Blackett, physicist
- Denis Gabor, inventor of holography and Lord Penney, mathematician and atomic scientist.
For further information about Imperial College London please go to:
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/