Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina , United state.Funded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838 , the school moved to Durham in 1892.In 1924, the snuff and industrial electricity James B. Duke established the Duke Endowment, at which time the institution changed its name deceased his late father , Washington Duke.The campus spans more than 8,600 acres ( 35 km2 ) in three contiguous campuses in Durham as well as a marine lab in Beaufort principal design .Campus Duke largely by African American architect Julian Abel - architecture incorporates Gothic to 210 feet (64 m ) Duke Chapel in the center of campus "and the highest point of elevation.El freshman East Campus - contains a populated Georgian architecture , while the main Gothic West campus 1.5 miles away is adjacent to the Medical Center .
Research expenditures of Duke in fiscal 2012 were $ 1.01 billion , the seventh largest in the nation .Competitor in the Atlantic Coast Conference , the Duke athletic teams , known as the Blue Devils,have captured 15 national championships teams, four of them by their senior men's basketball profile team.Duke ranked 13th in the country by both the and QS , while linking de8ยบ in Us News 2015 u0026World Report " Best national Universities Rankings . "In 2014, Thomson Reuters named Duke 32 teachers to its list of Highly Cited Researchers .The only schools with more primary affiliations were Harvard, Stanford and UC Berkeley.
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In the field of research, Dr. Robert J. Lefkowitz, researcher Howard Hughes Medical Institute who has spent his research career of 39 years at the Medical Center at Duke University , shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Dr. Brian K. Kobilka deEscuela Stanford University of Medicine , who was a post -doctoral member Lefkowitz 's lab in the 1980s .Graduands Duke who won the Nobel Prize in Physics include Hans Dehmelt for his development of the ion trap technique , Robert Richardson for their discovery of super fluidity in helium - 3 and Charles Townes for his work in quantum electronics .Other students in research and academia include Turing Award winners Fred Brooks and John Cocke, Templeton Prize winning physicist and religion scholar Ian Barbour, MacArthur Award recipient Paul Farmer, and former dean of the Graduate School at Princeton Theodore Ziolkowski .