Trinity College (Cambridge)
The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity | |
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founding | 1546 |
Sponsorship | University of Cambridge |
place | Cambridge |
master | Sir Gregory Winter CBE FRS |
Students | 656 postgraduates : 380 |
Website | trin.cam.ac.uk |
The Trinity College is a college of the University of Cambridge and is home to about 1,000 students and 160 teachers. It has a strong academic tradition and to date has produced 34 Nobel Prize winners and four Fields Medalists . Trinity is also known for the annual Mayball and its rowing club First and Third Trinity Boat Club, as well as its choir, The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge .
History and structure
The college was founded by Henry VIII in December 1546 shortly before his death. To this end, he united the two older colleges Michaelhouse and King's Hall and furnished the newly founded college with land and income that came largely from the confiscated monastery property.
The college's buildings stretch between Gonville and Caius College to the south and St John's College to the north, from Trinity Street west to the River Cam . Most of them date from the 16th and 17th centuries. The main entrance, the Great Gate, which was built at the beginning of the 16th century as the entrance to King's Hall, leads to the Great Court , the approximately rectangular inner courtyard, which is the largest in Cambridge with an area of around 8,000 m². Its design goes back to Thomas Nevile , the master of the college from 1593 to 1615, who redesigned large parts of the college. He also had Nevile's Court built between the Great Court and the Cam, which was graduated to the west in the late 17th century with the construction of the Wren Library by Christopher Wren .
Nobel Prize Winner
As of 2019, there are a total of 34 Nobel Prize winners who have studied, researched or taught at Trinity College. Of these, 13 received the Nobel Prize for physics , 9 for chemistry , 7 for physiology or medicine , 3 for economics and one each for literature or peace .
- 1904 John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (physics)
- 1906 Sir Joseph John Thomson (physics)
- 1908 Ernest Rutherford (chemistry)
- 1915 William Henry Bragg (physics)
- 1915 William Lawrence Bragg (physics)
- 1917 Charles Glover Barkla (physics)
- 1922 Niels Bohr (physics)
- 1922 Francis William Aston (chemistry)
- 1922 Archibald Vivian Hill (Physiology / Medicine)
- 1925 Sir Austen Chamberlain (Peace)
- 1928 Owen Willans Richardson (physics)
- 1929 Frederick Gowland Hopkins (Physiology / Medicine)
- 1932 Edgar Douglas Adrian (Physiology / Medicine)
- 1936 Sir Henry Hallett Dale (Physiology / Medicine)
- 1937 George Paget Thomson (physics)
- 1950 Bertrand Russell (literature)
- 1951 Ernest Walton (physics)
- 1952 Richard Synge (chemistry)
- 1962 John Kendrew (chemistry)
- 1963 Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (Physiology / Medicine)
- 1963 Andrew Huxley (Physiology / Medicine)
- 1973 Brian David Josephson (physics)
- 1974 Sir Martin Ryle (physics)
- 1977 James Edward Meade (Economics)
- 1978 Pyotr Leonidowitsch Kapiza (physics)
- 1980 Walter Gilbert (chemistry)
- 1982 Aaron Klug (chemistry)
- 1983 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (physics)
- 1996 James Alexander Mirrlees (Economics)
- 1998 John A. Pople (chemistry)
- 1998 Amartya Sen (economics)
- 2009 Venki Ramakrishnan (chemistry)
- 2018 Gregory Winter (chemistry)
- 2019 Didier Queloz (Physics)
Other award winners
Fields Medal Winner
To date, four Trinity College members have been awarded the Fields Medal:
- 1966 Michael Atiyah
- 1970 Alan Baker
- 1998 Richard E. Borcherds
- 1998 William Timothy Gowers
Oscars
Four Trinity College members have received an Oscar :
- 2015 Eddie Redmayne
- 2014 Dan Piponi
- 1984 Peter Shaffer
- 1938 Ian Dalrymple
Famous alumni
- John Dee (1527–1608 / 1609), mathematician , astronomer , astrologer , geographer , mystic and advisor to Queen Elizabeth I.
- Francis Bacon (1561–1626), philosopher , statesman and natural scientist .
- Isaac Newton (1643–1727), mathematician and physicist
- Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873), founder of modern geology
- Charles Babbage (1791–1871), mathematician and inventor (e.g. analytical engine )
- William Talbot (1800–1877), inventor of the negative-positive process in photography
- Augustus De Morgan (1806–1871), mathematician ( De Morgan's laws )
- Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), writer , occultist and founder of the thelemic worldview
- George Biddell Airy (1801-1892), astronomer, discoverer of the astigmatism of the human eye
- James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), physicist, pioneer of electrodynamics
- John Roche Dakyns (1836-1910), geologist
- Ion Keith-Falconer (1856–1887), scientist, missionary and cyclist
- Robert Erskine Childers (1870–1922), Irish writer and prominent supporter of the Irish independence movement
- Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872–1970), mathematician and philosopher, Nobel Prize in Literature 1950
- S. Ramanujan (1887-1920), Indian mathematician
- Charles Rolls (1877–1910), founder of the Rolls-Royce automobile company
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century
- Kenneth Gandar-Dower (1908–1944), British writer and war correspondent
- Michael Grant (1914–2004) historian and author
- George D. Painter (1914-2005), incunal researcher and Proust biographer
- Keith Batey (1919-2010), cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park
- Rolf Noskwith (1919–2017), cryptanalyst in Bletchley Park
- John AT Robinson (1919–1983), Anglican Bishop of Woolwich, author of Honest to God
- James H. Wilkinson (1919–1986), mathematician, Turing Prize winner
- Alex Comfort (1920–2000), doctor, author and sex educator (" The Joy of Sex ")
- John Ehrman (1920–2011), historian and book collector
- Jean-Pierre Warner (1924–2005), first British Advocate General at the European Court of Justice
- John G. Hurst (1927-2003), archaeologist
- Anand Panyarachun (* 1932), former Prime Minister of Thailand
- Peter Wright (* 1946), former racing car designer in Formula 1
- Charles Mountbatten-Windsor, Prince of Wales (* 1948), heir to the throne of the United Kingdom
- Nicky Gumbel (* 1955), Anglican clergyman and father of the Alpha course
- Justin Welby (* 1956), current Archbishop of Canterbury
List of masters
The head of Trinity College is the master . The first master was John Redman , he was appointed in 1546. Originally the office was bestowed by the king, sometimes as an award to important people. Today the college's fellows , supported by the government, elect the masters, the role of the royal family is only nominal.
The list of Masters at Trinity College includes (along with other personalities):
- John Wilkins (1659-1660)
- Richard Bentley (1700-1742)
- William Whewell (1841–1866)
- Joseph John Thomson (1918-1940)
- George Macaulay Trevelyan (1940–1951)
- Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian (1951–1965)
- Rab Butler (1965–1978)
- Alan Hodgkin (1978-1984)
- Andrew Huxley (1984-1990)
- Michael Francis Atiyah (1990–1997)
- Amartya Sen (1998-2004)
- Martin Rees (2004–2012)
- Gregory Winter (2012-2019)
- Sally Davies (from 2019)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Nobel Laureates - Trinity College Cambridge. In: Trinity College Cambridge> About> Famous Trinity Alumni> Nobel Laureates. Trinity College Cambridge, accessed March 29, 2020 .
- ^ A b c Medallists and Prize-Winners - Trinity College Cambridge. In: Trinity College Cambridge> About> Famous Trinity Alumni> Medallists and Prize-Winners. Trinity College Cambridge, accessed March 29, 2020 .
- ↑ Reference date: February 10, 1920 - Alex Comfort's birthday , WDR of February 10, 2015.
- ↑ Masters & Fellows - Trinity College Cambridge. In: Trinity College Cambridge> About> Master & Fellows. University of Cambridge, Trinity College Cambridge, accessed March 30, 2020 .
- ^ The Master of Trinity - Trinity College Cambridge. In: Trinity College Cambridge> About> Master & Fellows. University of Cambridge, Trinity College Cambridge, accessed March 30, 2020 .
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