The Faculty of Natural Sciences is one of the three main faculties of

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. It was formed in 2001 from the former

Royal College of Science The Royal College of Science was a higher education institution located in South Kensington; it was a constituent college of Imperial College London from 1907 until it was wholly absorbed by Imperial in 2002. Still to this day, graduates from th ...

, a constituent college of Imperial College which dated back to 1848, and the faculty largely consists of the original departments of the College. Undergraduate teaching occurs for all departments at the

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campus, with research being split between South Kensington and the new innovation campus at

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. Students who study at the departments of the Faculty are represented by the

Royal College of Science Union The Royal College of Science Union (RCSU) is a student union and science outreach organisation at Imperial College London which represents over 3,000 students in the university's Faculty of Natural Sciences. It manages the student societies for t ...

, a constituent union of the college union which caters specifically to students on natural science courses. Graduates who obtain an undergraduate degree, either

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, from the faculty are awarded the Associateship of the Royal College of Science (ARCS) as an additional degree.

History

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The origins of the faculty lie in the Royal College of Chemistry, which, after being founded in 1845, moved to a new site in South Kensington in the early 1870s. Incorporated into the Normal School of Science, the college was later renamed the Royal College of Science in 1890, and in 1907 became a constituent college of the newly formed

Imperial College of Science and Technology Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...

. In 2001, Imperial was restructured to form four new faculties, including the faculties of Physical Sciences and Life Sciences, which took over the role of the Royal College of Science. These faculties were later re-merged over the course of 2005-2006 to form the Faculty of Natural Sciences, which comprises the same departments as the original Royal College of Science. Live! – News: Science Faculties to Re-Merge

Departments

The faculty includes five academic departments: *

Chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

* Mathematics * Physics, The

Blackett Laboratory The Blackett Laboratory is part of the Imperial College Faculty of Natural Sciences and has housed the Department of Physics at Imperial College London since its completion in 1961. Named after experimental physicist Patrick Blackett who establis ...

* Life Sciences *

Centre for Environmental Policy The Centre for Environmental Policy (CEP) is a department at Imperial College London in the Faculty of Natural Sciences. Its aim is to influence a wide range of environmental issues through research on the environmental, energy and health aspects ...

References

External links

Imperial College Faculty of Natural Sciences website
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Natural Sciences Natural science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer review and repeatab ...