名古屋大学 | |
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| Motto | 勇気ある知識人 (courageous intellectual) |
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| Type | Public (national) |
| Established | 1871 (Chartered 1939) |
| President | Naoshi Sugiyama |
Academic staff | 3,847 (2020) |
| Undergraduates | 9,585 (2020) |
| Postgraduates | 6,187 (2020) |
| Location | , , 35°09′17″N 136°58′01″E / 35.15472°N 136.96694°E |
| Campus | Urban, 3.2 km² |
| Colors | Pine Green |
| Website | en |
Nagoya University (名古屋大学, Nagoya daigaku), abbreviated to Meidai (名大) or NU,[1] is a Japanese national research university located in Chikusa-ku, Nagoya.
It was established in 1939 as the last of the nine Imperial Universities in the then Empire of Japan, and is now a Designated National University.
The university is the birthplace of the Sakata School of physics and the Hirata School of chemistry. As of 2021, seven Nobel Prize winners have been associated with Nagoya University, the third most in Japan and Asia behind Kyoto University and the University of Tokyo.[2][3]
- ^ Tokyo's Meiji University's 明大 is pronounced identically
- ^ "Nagoya University World Class Researchers". en.nagoya-u.ac.jp.
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014". NobelPrize.org.