Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Template:Oxbridge College Infobox Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, generally known as "Caius" (pronounced "Keys"), is a constituent college of Cambridge University, one of the world's most renowned academic institutions. The college has produced numerous academically-accomplished alumni, including several Nobel Prize winners.
The college was first founded, as Gonville Hall, by Edmund Gonville, Rector of Terrington in 1348. It was founded a second time as Gonville & Caius College in 1557 by the physician John Caius. John Caius was master of the college from 1559 until shortly before his death in 1573. He provided the college with significant funds and greatly extended the buildings.
The college first admitted women as fellows and students in 1979. The college now has nearly 100 fellows, over 700 students and about 200 staff.
Most of the stone used to build the college came from Ramsey Abbey near Ramsey, Cambridgeshire.
Gonville and Caius also very selectively admits American and other foreign students for its various summer programs, the most prominent of which has been organized in the United States by the University of New Hampshire.
The Old Courts
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Tree Court is the largest of the old courts. It is so named because John Caius planted an avenue of trees there. Although none of the original trees survive, there are several trees which is unusual for a Cambridge front court.
The Gate of Honour, in Caius Court, though the most direct way from the old courts to the Cockrell Building library, is only used for special occasions.
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Gonville Court has the most student residences on it.
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Notable Former Students and Alumni
- Harold Abrahams - Olympic athlete portrayed in the film Chariots of Fire.
- Jimmy Carr - comedian and television presenter.
- Sir James Chadwick - Nobel Prize winning physicist, discoverer of the neutron.
- Kenneth Clarke - Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer.
- Mōri Gorō - (1871-1925) of the Choshu clan.
- Henry Fancourt - Naval aviator.
- John Lehman - American Secretary of the Navy and member of the September 11th Commission.
- Inagaki Manjiro - (1861-1908) Japan's first Minister Resident in Siam in 1897, Pan-Asianist, leading light of the Japanese Club at Cambridge.
- Sir Nevill Mott - Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicist.
- J. H. Prynne - modern British poet.
- Charles Sherrington - Nobel Prize winning neurophysiologist.
- Adair Turner - British businessman.
- John Venn - inventor of the Venn diagram.
- E. A. Wilson - explorer who died with Robert Falcon Scott in the Antarctic.
Notable Fellows
- Francis Crick - Nobel Prize winner for the co-discovery of DNA
- Stephen Hawking - Theoretical physicist and Lucasian professor
- J. H. Prynne - modern British poet
- Joseph Stiglitz - Nobel Prize winning Economist
External links
- Caius College Website
- Caius JCR (JCR = Junior Common Room, the undergraduate student social organisation for the college)
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