St John's College (Cambridge)
The College of Saint John the Evangelist of the University of Cambridge | |
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founding | 1511 |
Sponsorship | University of Cambridge |
place | Cambridge |
master | Chris Dobson |
Students | 570 postgraduates : 340 |
Website | www.joh.cam.ac.uk |
The St John's College is a college of the University of Cambridge , England . Founded in 1511 by Lady Margaret Beaufort, it is the third largest undergraduate college in Cambridge after Trinity College and Homerton College .
St John's is one of the richest colleges with a fund of £ 225 million and an income of £ 7.6 million p. a. (2003). Members of the college received a total of ten Nobel Prizes . The college also has a world-famous college choir.
Each year the college awards prestigious and generous scholarships to graduate students under the Benefactors' Scholarships Scheme. Part of this scholarship scheme are the Craik Scholarship, the JC Hall Scholarship, the Luisa Aldobrandini Studentship Competition, the Paskin Scholarship and the Pelling Scholarship. The competition for these scholarships is extremely fierce as students from any country wishing to pursue any graduate degree (and not just college members) can apply.
Famous members
- Brook Taylor (1685–1731) - Mathematician ( Taylor series )
- William Wilberforce (1759–1833) - MP and opponent of the slave trade
- Thomas Clarkson (1760–1846) - opponent of slavery in England, founder of the abolitionist movement
- William Wordsworth (1770–1850) - poet and leading member of the English Romanticism movement
- William Edmund Hick (1912–1974), pioneer of cognitive science and ergonomics
- Sir Maurice Wilkes (1913-2010) - co-founder of computer science
- Eric Koch (1919-2018), Canadian journalist
- Sir Roger Penrose (* 1931) - mathematical physicist and philosopher
- Manmohan Singh (* 1932) - Prime Minister of India (2004-2014)
- Fra ' Matthew Festing (* 1949) - 79th Grand Master of the Order of Malta
- Douglas Adams (1952-2001) - writer (" The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ")
Nobel Prize Winner
year | Surname | area |
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1933 | Paul Dirac (1902-1984) | Physics ( quantum physics ) |
1947 | Sir Edward Victor Appleton (1892-1965) | physics |
1951 | Sir John Cockcroft (1897-1967) | Physics ( nuclear fission ) |
1958 | Frederick Sanger (1918-2013) | chemistry |
1962 | Maurice Wilkins (1916-2004) | Medicine (discovery of the structure of DNA ) |
1977 | Sir Nevill Francis Mott (1905-1996) | physics |
1979 | Abdus Salam (1926–1996) | Physics ( Electroweak Interaction ) |
1979 | Allan McLeod Cormack (1924-1998) | Medicine ( computed tomography ) |
1980 | Frederick Sanger (1918-2013) | chemistry |
2007 | Eric Maskin (* 1950) | economy |
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Scholarships & Studentships . In: joh.cam.ac.uk . Retrieved July 22, 2013.
Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′ 30 ″ N , 0 ° 7 ′ 1 ″ E