Gonville College
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Gonville & Caius College from King's Parade
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| University | Cambridge University |
| Location | Trinity Street (map) |
| Coordinates | 52°12′21″N 0°07′04″E / 52.2059°N 0.1179°ECoordinates: 52°12′21″N 0°07′04″E / 52.2059°N 0.1179°E |
| 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 |
| Boat club | www |
Gonville & Caius College (often referred to simply as Caius /ˈkiːz/ 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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