Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

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

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

The College took first time in 1979 women as students and teachers on. Today the College has around 100 teachers, 200 employees and over 700 students.

Famous members and alumni

  • William Harvey (1578-1657) - anatomist, discoverer of blood circulation
  • George Green (1793-1841) - mathematician and physicist
  • John Venn (1834-1923) - inventor of the lot diagram
  • David Alfred Thomas (1856-1918) - Welsh politician and nobleman, Minister of nutrition 1917-1918
  • Sir Charles Sherrington (1857-1952) - Nobel laureate in medicine in 1932, working in the field of functions of neurons
  • Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912) - Arctic explorer, died with Scott in the Antarctic
  • Max Born (1882-1970) - Nobel Laureate 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) - Nobel Laureate in Physics 1935, discoverer of the neutron
  • Sir Howard Florey (1898-1968) - Nobel laureate in medicine in 1945, co-discoverer of penicillin
  • Harold Abrahams (1899-1978) - Olympic champion (film Chariots of Fire )
  • Joseph Needham (1900-1995) - eminent British sinologist and biochemists
  • Sir John Hicks (1904-1989) - Nobel Laureate in Economics 1972
  • Sir Nevill Mott (1905-1996) - Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977 for the electronic structure in magnetic and disordered systems
  • Milton Friedman (1912-2006) - Nobel Laureate in Economics 1976
  • Sir Richard Stone (1913-1991) - Nobel Laureate in Economics in 1984 for the development of national accounting systems
  • Francis Crick (1916-2004) - Nobel laureate in medicine in 1962, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
  • Antony Hewish (* 1924) - Nobel Laureate in Physics 1974 discovery of pulsars
  • Samuel Edwards ( b. 1928 ) British physicist
  • Stephen Hawking ( b. 1942 ) - physicist, mathematician and professor Lukasischer
  • Joseph Stiglitz ( born 1943 ) - Nobel Laureate in Economics 2001 for the analysis of markets with asymmetric information
  • Robin G. Holloway ( b. 1943 ) - composer and professor at the Music Institute of the University
  • Trevor Wooley ( b. 1964 ) - British mathematician, in 2012 awarded the Cheerful Award
  • Alain de Botton (born 1969 ) - writer and philosopher
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