Gonville and Caius College
The Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge, often referred to as "Caius" (pronounced "KIS"), is a college that is part of the University of Cambridge.
Most of the stone used in its construction was taken from Ramsey Abbey in Cambridge County.
The school was founded as Gonville Pavilion in 1348, its founder (Edmund Gonville) being the rector of Terrington. It was later refounded in 1557 as the Gonville & Caius in commemoration of the scholar and physician John Caius, director of the school from 1559 until shortly before his death in 1573. During his tenure, Caius raised significant funds for the school and greatly expanded the buildings.
This school first admitted a woman as a student in 1979 and currently has about 100 associate professors, more than 700 students, and about 200 administrators.
Notable people
His students included thirteen Nobel Prize winners.
- George Green - Mathematician
- John Venn - Mathematic and inventor of the diagrams bearing his name.
- Charles Sherrington - Neurologist and Nobel Prize winner.
- James Chadwick - Physical, neutron discoverer and Nobel Prize winner.
- Edward Adrian Wilson - Explorer who died with Scott in the Antarctic.
- Francis Crick - Biologist, DNA discoverer and Nobel Prize winner.
- Ronald Fisher... Biologist and statistician, he was a student between 1909 and 1912.
- Nevill Mott - Theoretical Physical and Nobel Prize winner.
- J. H. Prynne - Modern British Poet.
- David Frost - Journalist and writer.
- William Harvey - Doctor. He described the Circulation System.
- Stephen Hawking - Globally known mathematician and physical for his work on black holes.
- Sir Thomas Gresham, an English merchant and financial of the sixteenth century, known by the Gresham Law, concerning the coexistence of several currencies.
- Thomas Fale - Doctor and English mathematician of the sixteenth century.
- Sherlock Holmes - The famous fictional detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, studied at this Cambridge college after passing through the Christ Church College of Oxford.
- Mick Rock, photographer, known for his photos of David Bowie, Lou Reed, Syd Barrett and Queen in the 1970s