St John's College, Cambridge

The St John 's College is a college of the University of Cambridge, England. It was founded in 1511 by Lady Margaret Beaufort and is named after the Trinity College and Homerton College, the college with the third largest student population in Cambridge.

St John 's is one of the wealthiest colleges with foundation volume of 225 million pounds sterling, and an income of 7.6 million pounds pa (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 confers 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 hard, as students of all countries who wish to complete any graduate degree (and not just college members), may apply.

Famous members

  • Brook Taylor (1685-1731) - Mathematician ( Taylor series )
  • William Wilberforce (1759-1833) - parliamentarian and opponent of the slave trade
  • Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846) - Opponents of slavery in England, founder of the abolitionist movement
  • William Wordsworth (1770-1850) - poet and leading member of the English Romantic movement
  • Douglas Adams (1952-2001) - writer ( " The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" )
  • Sir Maurice Wilkes (1913-2010) - co-founder of computer science
  • Sir Roger Penrose ( born 1931 ) - Mathematical physicist and philosopher
  • Fra ' Matthew Festing ( b. 1949 ) - 79th Grand Master of the Order of Malta
  • Manmohan Singh ( b. 1932 ) - Prime Minister of India (since 2004)
  • William Edmund Hick (1912-1974), pioneer of cognitive science and ergonomics

Nobel Laureate

View on the back of St John's

Main entrance of St John 's College

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