Trinity College, Cambridge
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| University | Cambridge University |
| Location | Trinity Street |
| Full name | College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity within the Town and University of Cambridge of King Henry the Eighth's foundation |
| Motto | Virtus Vera Nobilitas (Latin) |
| Motto in English | Virtue is true nobility |
| Founder | Henry VIII |
| Established | 1546 |
| Named for | The Holy Trinity |
| Previous names | King's Hall and Michaelhouse (until merged in 1546) |
| Sister college | Christ Church, Oxford |
| Master | Sir Gregory Winter |
| Undergraduates | 700 |
| Postgraduates | 350 |
| Website | www |
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England. With around 600 undergraduates, 300 graduates, and over 180 fellows, it is the largest college in either of the Oxbridge universities by number of undergraduates. By combined student numbers, it is second to Homerton College, Cambridge.
Members of Trinity have won 32 Nobel Prizes out of the 91 won by members of Cambridge University, the highest number of any college. Five Fields Medals in mathematics were won by members of the college (of the six awarded to members of British universities) and one Abel Prize was won.
Trinity alumni include six British prime ministers (all Tory or Whig/Liberal), physicists Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell, Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr, mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, the poet Lord Byron, philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell (whom it expelled before reaccepting), and Soviet spies Kim Philby, Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt.
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