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Gonville College

Gonville & Caius College
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Gonville & Caius College from King's Parade
Gonville & Caius College Crest.svg
University Cambridge University
Location Trinity Street (map)
Coordinates 52°12′21″N 0°07′04″E / 52.2059°N 0.1179°E / 52.2059; 0.1179Coordinates: 52°12′21″N 0°07′04″E / 52.2059°N 0.1179°E / 52.2059; 0.1179
Founders Edmund Gonville (1348)
John Caius (1557)
Established 1348, refounded 1557
Previous names Gonville Hall (1348–1351)
Hall of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1351–1557)
Sister college Brasenose College, Oxford
Master Alan Fersht
Undergraduates 475
Postgraduates 230
Website www.cai.cam.ac.uk
Boat club www.caiusboatclub.com

Gonville & Caius College (often referred to simply as Caius /ˈkz/ KEEZ) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The college is the fourth-oldest college at the University of Cambridge and one of the wealthiest. The college has been attended by many students who have gone on to significant accomplishment, including fourteen Nobel Prize winners, the second-most of any Oxbridge college (after Trinity College, Cambridge).

The college has long historical associations with medical teaching, especially due to its alumni physicians: John Caius (who gave the college the caduceus in its insignia) and William Harvey. Other famous alumni in the sciences include Francis Crick (joint discoverer, along with James Watson, of the structure of DNA), James Chadwick (discoverer of the neutron) and Howard Florey (developer of penicillin). Stephen Hawking, previously Cambridge's Lucasian Chair of Mathematics Emeritus, is a current fellow of the college. The college also maintains academic programmes in many other disciplines, including economics, English literature and history.


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