The Faculty of Natural Sciences (FNS) ( Slovak: ''Prírodovedecká Fakulta'' (PriF UK)) is a faculty of the

Comenius University in Bratislava Comenius University Bratislava () is the largest university in Slovakia, with most of its faculties located in Bratislava. It was founded in 1919, shortly after the creation of Czechoslovakia. It is named after Jan Amos Comenius, a 17th-century ...

History

Efforts to establish the Faculty of Natural Sciences in Slovakia during the

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were not successful. After split of the Czechoslovakia into the

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and the

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and disposal of Czech higher education, Slovak students had no more science colleges available. The Natural Sciences Faculty of Slovak University (former name of Comenius University in Bratislava) was founded in 1940 and education in the first semester started in autumn 1940/1941. Faculty become independent from the Faculty philosophy of the then Slovak University, where some science subjects were previously taught. The first Dean was the František Valentin. From the beginning it consisted of Botanical and Geographical institute, the institute also Zoology and Comparative Anatomy. Several subjects as

mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...

and

chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...

, were taught in the lecture hall of Slovak technical college.Veľký, J. a kolektív, 1980, ''Encyklopédia Slovenska IV. zväzok N - Q.'' Veda, Bratislava, 595 pp. (In Slovak) In the 1941 Geological Institute was added. A year later Mineralogical and Petrographic Institute was established. Both working in makeshift conditions without sufficient qualified staff. In the winter semester of 1942/1943 Institute of Nuclear Physics was added to the faculty and in 1944, Astronomical Institute and Institute of Mathematics were established. Only science without a separate department until 1948 was the chemistry. In the 1950 former institutes were organized into the departments. In 1980, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics was separated from the Natural Sciences Faculty.

Campus

Individual departments were formerly housed in several buildings in the center of Bratislava. From 1960s to 1987 five

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complex was built in the Mlynská Dolina Valley in the

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for purposes of the Faculty. Apart from them, faculty has buildings of the Botanical garden, Department of Botany and a Biological research station at

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Sections

The Natural Sciences faculty is divided up into the following sections:

Biological section

* Department of Animal Physiology and Ethology * Department of Anthropology * Department of Botany * Department of Ecology * Department of Genetics * Department of Microbiology and Virology * Department of Molecular Biology * Department of Plant Physiology * Department of Zoology * Institute of Cell Biology

Chemical section

* Department of Analytical Chemistry * Department of Biochemistry * Department of Inorganic Chemistry * Department of Nuclear Chemistry * Department of Organic Chemistry * Department of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry * Institute of Chemistry

Environmental section

* Department of Nature Conservation * Department of Geochemistry * Department of Landscape Ecology * Department of Soil Science

Geographical section

* Department of Cartography, Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing * Department of Human Geography and Demogeography * Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology * Department of Regional Geography, Protection and Planning of the Landscape

Geological section

* Department of Applied and Environmental Geophysics * Department of Geology and Paleontology * Department of Geology of Mineral Deposits * Department of Hydrogeology * Department of Engineering Geology * Department of Mineralogy and Petrology * Institute of Laboratory Research on Geomaterials

Other sections

* Department of Didactics in Science, Psychology and Pedagogy * Department of Languages * Department of Physical Education * Central Computing Centre

References

External links

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