Trinity College (Cambridge)

Trinity College is the largest and richest College, University of Cambridge and is home to approximately 1,000 students and 160 teachers. It has a strong academic tradition and has been 32 Nobel Prize winners and four winner of the Fields Medal spawned. In addition, Trinity is known for the annual Mayball and its rowing club First and Third Trinity Boat Club and its Choir The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge.

History and organization

The college was founded in December 1546 by Henry VIII shortly before his death. He united to the two older colleges Michaelhouse and King's Hall and equipped the newly established College with lands and revenues, which came mostly from the monastery confiscated assets.

The buildings of the college extend between the Gonville and Caius College in the south and St John 's College in the north of the Trinity Street west to the River Cam. They come mostly from the 16th and 17th centuries. Through the main entrance, the Great Gate, which was built in the early 16th century as the input of King's Hall, you get into the Great Court, the approximately rectangular courtyard, which is the largest in Cambridge with a floor area of about 8000 m². His system goes back to Thomas Nevile, master of the college from 1593 to 1615, large parts of the college redesigned. He also had the Nevile 's Court between Great Court and the river Cam build, which won in the late 17th century with the construction of the Wren Library by Christopher Wren graduated to the west.

Nobel Laureate

Winner of the Fields Medal

Famous Alumni

  • John Dee (1527-1608), mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, mystics, and adviser of Queen Elizabeth I.
  • Francis Bacon (1561-1626), philosopher, statesman and scientist.
  • Isaac Newton (1643-1727), mathematician and physicist
  • Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), founder of modern geology
  • Charles Babbage (1791-1871), mathematician and inventor (eg Analytical Engine )
  • William Talbot (1800-1877), inventor of the negative-positive process in photography
  • Augustus De Morgan (1806-1871), mathematician ( De Morgan's law )
  • Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), writer, occultist and founder of the Thelemic philosophy
  • George Biddell Airy (1801-1895), astronomer, discoverer of the astigmatism of the human eye
  • James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), physicist, pioneer of electrodynamics
  • Robert Erskine Childers (1870-1922), Irish writer and prominent supporters of Irish independence movement
  • SA Ramanujan (1887-1920), Indian mathematician
  • Charles Rolls (1877-1910), founder of the automobile company Rolls- Royce
  • 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
  • Keith Batey (1919-2010), cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park
  • Rolf Noskwith (* 1919), cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park
  • John AT Robinson (1919-1983), Anglican Bishop of Woolwich, author of Honest to God
  • James H. Wilkinson (1919-1986), mathematician, Turing award winners
  • John Ehrman (1920-2011), historian and book collector
  • Jean -Pierre Warner (1924-2005), first British Advocate General at the European Court
  • John G. Hurst (1927-2003), archaeologist
  • Anand Panyarachun ( born 1932 ), former Prime Minister of Thailand
  • Peter Wright ( born 1946 ), former designer of racing cars in Formula 1
  • Charles Mountbatten -Windsor, Prince of Wales ( b. 1948 ), heir to the throne of the United Kingdom
  • Nicky Gumbel ( born 1955 ), Anglican clergyman and father of the Alpha Course
  • Justin Welby ( b. 1956 ), current Archbishop of Canterbury

List of Master

The head of Trinity College is the Master. The first Master was John Redman, he was appointed in 1546. Originally, the office was conferred by the king, sometimes called honors from important people. Today select the Fellows of the College, supported by the government, the master, the role of the royal family is only nominal.

The list of Master of Trinity College includes:

  • John Wilkins (1659-1660)
  • Richard Bentley (1700-1742)
  • Joseph John Thomson (1918-1940)
  • George Macaulay Trevelyan (1940-1951)
  • Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian ( 1951-1965 )
  • Andrew Huxley (1984-1990)
  • Michael Francis Atiyah (1990-1997)
  • Amartya Sen (1998-2004)
  • Martin Rees (2004-2012)
  • Gregory Winter ( from 2012)
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