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University of Otago

The University of Otago in Dunedin is New Zealand's oldest university and the world's most southerly.

The university was founded in 1869, and opened in July 1871.

Some of its many diverse buildings appear in the following panorama:

It began teaching medicine in 1875, and is one of the two medical schools in New Zealand.

In 1998, the physics department gained some fame for making the first Bose-Einstein condensate in the southern hemisphere.

The 2004 Government investigation into research quality (to be used for future funding) put Otago in fourth place in New Zealand.

Notable alumni and alumnae

• Tan Sri Dato' (Dr) Hj Ahmad Azizuddin Bin Hj Zainal Abidin (Dr Ahmad, former Speaker of the Perak State Legislative Assembly)
• Barbara Anderson
• Professor Murray Brennan of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York
• Sir Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa), former visiting professor at Yale University then Director of the Bishop Museum of Hawaii
• The Hon Dame Silvia Cartwright (nee Poulter), New Zealand's current Governor-General since 2001; former Chief District Court Judge
• Sir Geoffrey Cox, co-founder of World Wide Television (today one of the main television news agencies)
• Bill English
• George Griffiths, publisher, journalist, regional historian, and Hocken Fellow 1998
• Alison Holst (nee Payne)
• Fergus Hume
• Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas, City and Business Adviser to the Mayor of London, sitting in the London cabinet, Board Member of the London Development Agency (chairing its Business Committee, and (inter alia) Chairman of the Board of Governors of Birkbeck College, University of London)
• Chris Laidlaw
• John Edward "Jack" Lovelock
• Kamisese Mara
• Arnold Nordmeyer
• Professor Datuk Dr Mazlan Othman, Director-General of Malaysia's National Space Agency
• Robert Stout
• Peter Tapsell

External links

• University of Otago homepage
• About the Bose-Einstein Condensate

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