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18 unusual facts about University of Cambridge


Bergen Davis

Davis's post-graduate work at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge had prepared him to engage with the new physics which followed the work of scientists such as Einstein, Planck, and Bohr, concepts which he helped to introduce into the Columbia curriculum.

Charles Edward Moss

He took up the post of Curator of the Herbarium at the University of Cambridge in January 1908.

Christopher Chippindale

He is a Reader in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and works at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology where he is Senior Curator (Archaeology).

Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar

He was born in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra (Bombay Presidency as it was called then) and was educated first at University of Cambridge and then at Universities Marburg and Göttingen.

John Henry Warcup

Born in New Zealand in 1921, Jack moved to the UK to undertake his PhD, examining distribution of fungi through soil profiles at Lakenheath Warren, in the University of Cambridge's botany department.

Joseph Lipman

He was a member of the MSRI and visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge and the University of Nice and a visiting professor at the Columbia University and Harvard University.

Joseph Priestley and Dissent

Between 1660 and 1665, Parliament passed a series of laws that restricted the rights of dissenters: they could not hold political office, teach school, serve in the military or attend Oxford and Cambridge unless they ascribed to the thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England.

Martynia

Houstoun took the opportunity to name the plant Martynia in honor of a professor of botany at Cambridge, John Martyn.

May week

May Week, the celebratory week at the end of the academic year at Cambridge University

Menachem Ben-Sasson

After doing a post-doctorate at the University of Cambridge, he became a professor of the History of the Jewish Nation.

Noël Olivier

She met the poet Rupert Brooke at a supper party in May 1907, prior to a meeting of the Cambridge Fabians which her father had been invited to address.

Purity of Diction in English Verse

The book was written for the most part in Plymouth, and Davie put into it much of what he had learned at Cambridge.

Sarah Bridle

Prof Bridle received a first class Masters in Natural Sciences from University of Cambridge in 1997.

Smuts Hall

The result was the design of cloisters giving access to a number of "entries", "staircases" or "flats" modeled on the Oxford and Cambridge Colleges.

Stuart A. Aaronson

He earned his M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center in 1966, and completed a fellowship at the University of Cambridge in England and an internship in medicine at Moffitt Hospital in San Francisco.

The Chaplin Society

The Chaplin Society is a monarchist gentlemen's dining society, based at Peterhouse, at the University of Cambridge.

Thomas Hobson

When they were not needed to deliver mail, Hobson's horses were rented to students and academic staff of the university.

William Bate Hardy

He was born in Erdington, Birmingham and graduated with a Master of Arts from the University of Cambridge, where he carried out biochemical research.


A. W. Lawrence

He was Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge University in the 1940s, and in the early 1950s in Accra he founded what later became the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board as well as the National Museum of Ghana.

Abhinay Muthoo

He studied for a BSc in Economics at the London School of Economics before proceeding to obtain his MPhil and PhD in Economics at the University of Cambridge, where he was supervised by Kenneth Binmore and Frank Hahn.

Alice Goodman

She was educated at Harvard University and Cambridge where she studied English and American literature.

Amira Bennison

Dr Amira K. Bennison, a.k.a. Kate Bennison, is a historian of the Middle East, currently senior lecturer in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in the University of Cambridge and fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Andrew Barnard

He had the honorary dignity of M.A. conferred on him by the university of Cambridge in 1842, and was a governor of the Royal Academy of Music, of which institution he was one of the early promoters.

Beijing Consensus

Stefan Halper, Director of American Studies at the Department of Politics, Cambridge and former foreign policy official in the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan administrations, offered his own interpretation of the term in his 2012 book, The Beijing Consensus: How China's Authoritarian Model Will Dominate the Twenty-First Century.

Brit Andresen

In addition to the Universities of Cambridge and Queensland, Andresen has held teaching positions at the Architectural Association in London, the School of Architecture and Urban Planning UCLA, Bristol University School of Architecture and a guest lecturing position at The Royal University of Malta.

Cambridge Medical School building

The building for the Cambridge Medical School of the University of Cambridge was designed in 1899 by Edward Schroeder Prior.

Carenza Lewis

Educated at the school (since closed) of the Church of England Community of All Hallows, Norfolk, and at the University of Cambridge, in 1985 she joined the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (now part of English Heritage) as a field archaeologist for Wessex.

Çatalhöyük

After this scandal, the site lay idle until 1993, when investigations began under the leadership of Ian Hodder then at the University of Cambridge.

Catherine Bragg

Bragg obtained a PhD in Criminal Justice from the University at Albany, SUNY, a Master of Philosophy in Criminology from the University of Cambridge and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Toronto.

Constance McKee

From 1990 to 1994, she was CEO of Cambridge Quantum Fund I, a seed venture fund at University of Cambridge.

Cuthbert Tunstall

Cuthbert studied mathematics, theology, and law at Oxford, Cambridge, and Padua, where he graduated Doctor of Laws.

Daiwa Adrian Prize

University of Cambridge/Harvard University/Karolinska Institutet: Hugh Robinson, Nathan Gouwens, Hugo Zeberg, Rita Kalra

David E. Green

He then moved to England and worked for eight years at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Malcolm Dixon, on redox reactions in biological systems.

David Lary

He received a first class double honors BSc in physics and chemistry from King's College London (1987) with the Sambrooke Exhibition Prize in Natural Science, and a PhD in atmospheric chemistry from the University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry while at Churchill College (1991).

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He then held post-doctoral research assistant and associate positions at the University of Cambridge until receiving a Royal Society research fellowship in 1996 (also at Cambridge).

Digby McLaren

Born in Carrickfergus, Ireland and educated at Sedbergh School, he received a Bachelor of Arts in geology from the University of Cambridge.

Earls Colne

Earls Colne is one of the best recorded villages in the UK and has been the subject of a study undertaken between 1972 and 2002 by Professor Alan Macfarlane and his team from the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.

Electro-kinetic road ramp

The idea was dismissed as Talk of 'kinetic energy plates' is a total waste of energy in the Guardian by David MacKay, the professor of natural philosophy in the department of Physics at the University of Cambridge.

Eli Franklin Burton

From 1904 to 1906 he studied colloids with J. J. Thomson at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, writing an important monograph on the subject in 1938.

Geoffrey de Freitas

De Freitas was educated at Haileybury and Clare College, Cambridge, where he was a successful student and athlete, and was president of the Cambridge Union for a term.

Ian Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton

Lang was educated at Lathallan School, Rugby School and Sidney Sussex College of The University of Cambridge, where he was also a member of the Cambridge Footlights.

Inge Lehmann

After having finished school, she studied, with some interruptions due to poor health, mathematics at the University of Copenhagen and University of Cambridge.

John Eatwell, Baron Eatwell

Lord Eatwell was educated at Headlands Grammar School in Swindon in Wiltshire, followed by Queens' College at the University of Cambridge, where he gained a B.A., followed by Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar, where he obtained a Ph.D. and returned to Queens' as a research fellow.

Joseph Romilly

He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1809, became a scholar of the college, and graduated B.A. in 1813 as fourth wrangler.

Mansur Muhtar

He earned an Masters degree in Economics and Politics of Development from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom in 1983, and a Phd in Economics from the University of Sussex, Brighton in February 1988.

Maurice Edwards

Edwards was born on 17 May 1886, he was educated at Ripon Grammar School and Queens' College, University of Cambridge.

Michael D. Towler

Michael D. Towler (also referred to as Mike Towler, complete name Michael David Towler) is a British theoretical physicist associated with the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge and currently research associate at University College, London and College Lecturer at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Owen Chadwick

As Vice-Chancellor he guided Cambridge through turbulent times in the late 1960s; and was Chancellor of the University of East Anglia between 1984 and 1994.

Polytechnic University of San Luis Potosí

Besides the academic programs, the University offers a series of professional certifications, such as: The FCE by University of Cambridge, the MOS certification by Microsoft, and other certifications offered by Cisco Systems, or Sun Microsystems.

Presenilin

They were first identified in screens for mutations causing early onset forms of familial Alzheimer's Disease by Peter St George-Hyslop at the Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University of Toronto, and now also at the University of Cambridge.

R. K. Sinha

Alison Richard, The Vice Chancellor, University of Cambridge, Dr Sinha served his country, his University, and scholarship with great distinction and imbued generations of students with love of the English language and its literature.

Somak Raychaudhury

He then proceeded to obtain a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, as a member of Churchill College, Cambridge, in 1990, supported by an Isaac Newton Studentship.

Stephen Cheeke

and then went on to read English at the University of Cambridge, where he formed half of a stand-up double-act, God and Jesus, with Simon Munnery.

Stephen Kinnock

After attending Drayton Manor High School, and having achieved a degree in Modern Languages from Queens' College, University of Cambridge and an MA from the College of Europe in 1993, Stephen Kinnock worked as a research assistant at the European Parliament in Brussels before becoming a British Council Development and Training Services executive based in Brussels from 1997.

Temasek Junior College

TJC students have been admitted to universities including MIT, Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, Oxford, Duke, LSE, University of Toronto, McGill, UCLA, Berkeley, Caltech, Stanford, Peking University and Amherst.

Terrington St Clement

The magnificent Parish Church, dedicated to St Clement (i.e. Pope Clement I), known as the "Cathedral of the Marshland", was built in the 14th century by Edmund Gonville, Rector of Terrington, who founded Gonville Hall (now Gonville and Caius College) at Cambridge University.

The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online

University of Cambridge is Director of the project; James Secord of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge and Janet Browne of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London were the principal investigators for the grant.

The Moneypenny Diaries: Guardian Angel

It was also claimed that Westbrook was a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, however, the college replied stating no such person was in employment there.

Thomas Baily

-- Catholic Encyclopedia had "Glare Hall", probably typo, though Clare Hall didn't exist until 1966 -->, Cambridge, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1546.

Tim Godwin

He also received a BA (Hons) degree in Public Sector Police Studies from the University of Portsmouth and a Diploma in Applied Criminology from the University of Cambridge, where he studied at Fitzwilliam College.

Tony Leavey

He went to Mill Hill School and then Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge before returning to east Lancashire where he became a director of companies involved in the weaving and matchmaking industries in Colne and Rawtenstall.

University of Guyana

Drayton returned to British Guiana in December 1962, and it was on his advice that Jagan wrote to socialist scholars in the United Kingdom and United States, including Joan Robinson at the University of Cambridge, Paul Baran at Stanford University, and Lancelot Hogben at Birmingham to involve them in the recruitment of staff.

World Wide Molecular Matrix

First proposed in 2002 by Peter Murray-Rust and his colleagues in the chemistry department at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, WWMM provides a free, easily searchable database for information about thousands of complicated molecules, data that would otherwise remain inaccessible to scientists.