Gonville and Caius College

Gonville and Caius College
founding	1348: Gonville Hall 1557: Gonville & Caius
Sponsorship	University of Cambridge
place	Cambridge
master	Sir Christopher Hum
Students	475 postgraduates : 230
Website	www.cai.cam.ac.uk

Gate of Honor in Caius Court

The Gonville and Caius College is the fourth oldest college of the British University of Cambridge . It is also known by the name Caius (pronounced Keys ).

history

The college was founded in 1348 by Edmund Gonville under the name Gonville Hall . In 1557 the college was founded a second time under the name Gonville & Caius College after a generous donation from the English court doctor and former student John Caius . John Caius was a master of the college from 1559 until shortly before his death in 1573.

The college first accepted women as students and faculty in 1979. Today the college has around 100 teachers, 200 employees and over 700  students .

Famous members and alumni

• William Harvey (1578–1657) - anatomist , discoverer of the blood circulation
• George Green (1793–1841) - mathematician and physicist
• John Venn (1834–1923) - inventor of the set diagram
• David Alfred Thomas (1856–1918) - Welsh politician and nobleman, Minister for Food 1917–1918
• Sir Charles Sherrington (1857–1952) - Nobel Prize in Medicine 1932, work on the functions of neurons
• Edward Adrian Wilson (1872–1912) - polar explorer, died with Scott in Antarctica
• Max Born (1882–1970) - Nobel Prize in Physics 1954
• Harold Mattingly (1884–1964) - eminent British numismatist
• Sir Ronald Fisher (1890–1962) - mathematician specializing in genetics and statistics
• Sir James Chadwick (1891–1974) - 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics , discoverer of the neutron
• Sir Howard Florey (1898–1968) - Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1945, co-discoverer of penicillin
• Harold Abrahams (1899–1978) - Olympic Champion (film The Victory's Hour )
• Joseph Needham (1900–1995) - eminent British sinologist and biochemist
• Sir John Hicks (1904–1989) - 1972 Nobel Prize in Economics
• Sir Nevill Mott (1905–1996) - Nobel laureate in physics in 1977 for electronic structure in magnetic and disordered systems
• Milton Friedman (1912-2006) - 1976 Nobel Prize in Economics
• Sir Richard Stone (1913–1991) - 1984 Nobel Prize in Economics for the development of national accounting systems
• Francis Crick (1916–2004) - Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
• Antony Hewish (* 1924) - Nobel laureate in Physics 1974, discovery of pulsars
• Samuel Edwards (1928-2015) - British physicist
• Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) - physicist, mathematician and Lukas professor
• Joseph Stiglitz (* 1943) - Nobel laureate in economics 2001 for the analysis of markets with asymmetrical information
• Robin G. Holloway (* 1943) - composer and professor at the University's Music Institute
• Trevor Wooley (* 1964) - British mathematician, awarded the Fröhlich Prize in 2012
• Alain de Botton (* 1969) - writer and philosopher

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Coordinates: 52 ° 12 '21.4 "  N , 0 ° 7' 3.3"  E