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The Faculty of Natural Sciences (FNS) (Slovak: Prírodovedecká Fakulta (PriF UK)) is a faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava.




History


Efforts to establish the Faculty of Natural Sciences in Slovakia during the interwar period were not successful. After split of the Czechoslovakia into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and the Slovak Republic 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, physics and chemistry, were taught in the lecture hall of Slovak technical college. 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 pavilion complex was built in the Mlynská Dolina Valley in the Bratislava for purposes of the Faculty. Apart from them, faculty has buildings of the Botanical garden, Department of Botany and a Biological research station at Šúr.




Sections


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




= Biological section

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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

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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

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




= Geographical section

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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

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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

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




References






External links


Official website

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