University of Sussex

The University of Sussex was established by royal charter in 1961 in the village of Falmer, in the eastern portion of the sprawling South Downs National Park, just north of the seaside city of Brighton, in the county of East Sussex.

From very modest beginnings, Sussex has developed today into a major research university divided into ten schools of study, as well as a respected Institute of Development Studies. It has a student body of more than 21,000.

Sussex is associated with five Nobel laureates, namely,

• Physicist, Anthony Leggett
• Chemists, Archer Norman, John Cornforth & Harry Kroto
• Geneticist, Paul Nurse

Other prominent Sussex–connected people include the following:

• Philosopher, Margaret Boden
• Philosopher and intellectual historian, Knud Haakonssen
• Novelist, Ian McEwan
• Cosmologists, Martin Reese, John Gribbin & John D. Barrow
• Physicist, Dimitri Nanopoulos
• Biochemist, Laurence Pearl
• Evolutionary biologist, John Maynard Smith
• Literary scholar, Peter France
• Literary theorist, Gabriel Josipovici
• Byzantine scholar, Robin Milner-Gulland
• Historians, Peter Burke & Maurice Howard
• Psychologist, Brian Bates
• Economists, Donald Winch, Mariana Mazzucato, Michael Lipton, Christopher Freeman & Richard Jolly
• Former Botswanan President, Festus Mogae
• Former South African President, Thabo Mbeki
• Current Costa Rican President, Carlos Alvarado Quesada