University of Sheffield

The University of Sheffield is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It was formed in 1897 as the University College of Sheffield by merging the Sheffield School of Medicine, founded in 1828, with Firth College and the Sheffield Technical School, and it received its royal charter as a university in 1905. It is one of the original redbrick universities and a founding member of the Russell Group. Its science history includes Hans Krebs, who worked out the citric acid cycle there in 1937 and shared a Nobel Prize in 1953, and George Porter, who developed flash photolysis in its chemistry department. Six Nobel laureates have been affiliated with it as students or staff, and it is organised into five faculties and 21 academic schools.