Academic research at Harvard University

Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC)

Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH)

Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA)

Children's Hospital Boston

Dana–Farber Cancer Institute

Forsyth Institute

Harvard Pilgrim HealthCare

Hebrew SeniorLife

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Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

Judge Baker Children's Center

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Massachusetts General Hospital

McLean Hospital

Mount Auburn Hospital

Scope Schepens Eye Research Institute

Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital

Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System Collection Resources Harvard University has the largest academic library in the United States, ranking fifth in the world (after the Library of Congress, the British Library, the National Library of France, and the New York Public Library).

The central system of the Harvard University Library is located in the Widener Library in Harvard Yard. The entire system covers 80 different libraries, with an overall collection of more than 16 million volumes, making it The largest academic library network in the United States, and also ranked third in the United States (after the Library of Congress and the Boston Public Library). Different libraries are suitable for different types of readers: Cabot Science Library, Lamont Library and Widener Library located in the main campus of Cambridge are the most visited books by undergraduates. The Houghton Library and the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library specialize in collecting historical references on the development of women's status in the United States; the Harvard University database collects a variety of rare books and Hand-copied; some of the oldest maps, gazetteers, etc. in the United States can be found in Harvard's Pusey Library; while Harvard's Yenching Library preserves documents related to ancient East Asian languages. Museum 1. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts: Designed by the famous architect Le Corbusier, it is the database of the University's Film and Art Department.

2. Harvard ArtMuseums

1. Arthur M. Sackler Museum, which houses Asian art.

2. Busch-Reisinger Museum, which houses Central European and Nordic art.

3. Fogg Museum of Art, which houses Western medieval art.

3. Harvard Art Museums Online Collections

4. Straus Center for Conservation

5. Harvard Museum of Natural History

6. Harvard University Herbaria

7. Mineralogical & Geological Museum )

8. Museum of Comparative Zoology

9. Arnold Arboretum

10. Collection of Scientific Instruments (History) Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments

11. Fisher Museum at the Harvard Forest

12. Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology

13. Semitic Museum

14. Warren Anatomical Museum

15. Animals Database of Zoological Collections

16. Digital Harvard

17. Peabody Museum Online

18 , Harvard Museums of Science and Culture

19. metaLAB (at) Harvard Scientific Research Funding Harvard University ranks first among the world’s scientific research institutions in endowment funds, reaching a total of US$32 billion in 2013 , is the largest endowment fund after the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Harvard's average annual research funding exceeds US$750 million, providing support to hundreds of research institutions in 14 colleges. Impact Factor: "Nature" magazine released its annual report on March 27, 2014. In the contribution index of high-quality papers published in "Nature" magazine in 2013, Harvard University ranked first, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences ranked first in the world on this list. 6 bits. In the paper citation rankings released by ScienceWatch for the ten years 1999-2009, Harvard University also ranked first.

Rank InstitutionCC3Articles41.Harvard University, USA158.993872.Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA84.682283.Stanford University, USA80.211704.National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA73.461815.Max Planck Society, Germany70.652166.Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China63.151657.French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France59.372978.The University of Tokyo, Japan57.191289.University of California San Francisco (UCSF), USA49.8110710.University of Cambridge , UK48.52151The Most-Cited Institutions Overall, 1999-2009RankInstitutionPapersCitationsCitations Per Paper1HARVARD UNIV95,2912,597,78627.262MAX PLANCK SOCIETY69,3731,366,08719.693JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV54,0221,222 ,16622.624UNIV WASHINGTON54,1981,147,28321.175STANFORD UNIV48 ,8461,138,79523.316UNIV CALIF LOS ANGELES55,2371,077,06919.57UNIV MICHIGAN54,612948,62117.378UNIV CALIF BERKELEY46,984945,81720.139UNIV CALIF SAN FRANCISCO36,10693 9,30226.0210UNIV PENN46,235931,39920.14 Major achievements 1922, School of Medicine Completed insulin injection for the first time in England.

In 1954, Boston Children's Hospital scientist John Franklin Enders and his team won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their successful artificial cultivation of poliovirus.

In 1960, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center performed the first pacemaker implantation.

In 1961, Georg von Bekesch won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the physical mechanism by which the cochlea in the inner ear analyzes and transmits sound.

In 1962, molecular biologist James Watson won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for proposing the double helix model of DNA.

In 1964, Konrad Bloch won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries in cholesterol and fatty acid biosynthesis.

In 1965, physics professor Julian Schwinger shared the Nobel Prize in Physics that year with Richard Feynman and Shinichiro Tomonaga for their contributions to quantum electrodynamics and Fundamental contributions to particle physics.

In 1965, Woodward, the father of modern organic synthesis, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

In 1967, ophthalmologist George Wald won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his pioneering research in the field of retina.

In 1971, Simon Smith Kuznets, the father of gross national product, won the Nobel Prize in Economics that year.

In 1972, Kenneth Joseph Arrow and John Hicks*** won the Nobel Prize in Economics for their outstanding contributions to general equilibrium theory.

In 1973, Vasily Leontiev won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his research on input-output analysis methods.

In 1976, inorganic chemist William Lipscomb won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on the structure of borane.

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In 1979, Steven Weinberg won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his experimental verification of parity violation caused by the mixing of Z bosons and electromagnetic interactions; he also won the Nobel Prize in Physics Glashow, the founder of the Grand Unified Theory and also a professor at Harvard University.

In 1980, Baju Benacerraf won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the genetic cell surface structure that controls the immune response;

In the same year, because Walter Gilbert and Frederic Sanger were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing methods for determining DNA sequences.

In 1981, David Huber won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the visual system (the ability of visual cortex cells to interpret the retina's encoded impulse information).

In 1984, Carlo Rubbia won the Nobel Prize in Physics in the same year for his decisive role in the large-scale experimental program that discovered the weak interaction propagators W± and Z°.

In 1986, chemistry professor Dudley Hirschbach collaborated with Li Yuanzhe and John Polanyi to study the dynamics of the movement process of chemical elementary reaction systems on the potential energy surface*** Shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

In 1989, Norman Ramsay won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his development of ultra-precise cesium atomic clocks and hydrogen masers.

In 1990, Joseph Murray won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his "research on human organ and cell transplantation";

In the same year, Elias James Corey won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the theory and methods of computer-aided organic synthesis.

In 2002, Ricardo Giacconi won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering contributions to X-ray astronomy.

In 2004, Linda Barker and Richard Axel won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their outstanding research on smell.

In 2005, Roy Glauber won the Nobel Prize in Physics that year for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence.

In 2009, Jack Szostak shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with two scientists for discovering the mechanism by which telomeres and telomerase protect chromosomes.

In 2013, Martin Capras won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "creating multi-scale models for complex chemical systems".