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The University of Oxford is the oldest English-speaking university in the world.In 1993, there were 24 colleges associated with the University. Many of the colleges were founded originally by bishops or royalty. The colleges are self-governing and some have considerable endowments. They control their own membership and have their own internal governance structures, buildings and grounds. Each college elects its own head who chairs the Governing Body of Fellows, which agrees on the main decisions of the college.
Oxford was traditionally very strong in the arts and humanities, and particularly in subjects such as classics, ancient history and theology. Some great scientists such as Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle and Cristopher Wren had attended the University of Oxford. They were early Fellows of the Royal Society which was founded in 1660
Magdalen College, Oxford was founded in 1458 by William Waynflete, the Bishop of Winchester. He provided a significant endowment for the College and built some fine buildings set in beautiful grounds. In the early 1930s Magdalen College did not have a very strong reputation in Physics. But through its Sherardian Chair of Botany and Waynflete Professorships of Physiology, Chemistry, and Mathematics, it had played a leading role in Oxford. In 1933, Sir Charles Sherrington was the Waynflete Professor of Physiology. He had initiated a dramatic improvement in the reputation of Medical Sciences in Oxford. Two of his research students at Magdalen, Howard Florey and John Eccles, went on to win the Nobel Prize for themselves. Robert Robinson, the Waynflete Professor of Chemistry, went on to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1947 for his research on the synthesis of organic molecules of biological importance such as penicillin and morphine. Magdalen College has also been home to the Sherardian Chair of Botany since 1734. Arthur Tansley, the holder of Sherardian Chair of Botany from 1927-37, was a pioneer in the science of ecology. He, through detailed studies including Wicken Fen near Cambridge, coined the term ecosystem.
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