St John's College (Cambridge)

The College of Saint John the Evangelist of the University of Cambridge
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
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