Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England, founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII. Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell and Ernest Rutherford were members of the college, and a great number of Nobel laureates in the sciences have been fellows or students. The atlas links scientists to it where their cited articles say they studied or held a fellowship there, whether as undergraduates or as fellows.
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Founded Year Trinity College, Cambridge
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Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
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Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at Oxford or Cambridge.
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Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
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Bacon was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he rigorously followed the medieval curriculum, which was presented largely in Latin.
Francis Aston (Wikipedia)
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Arthur Cayley, Wikipedia
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David Baulcombe, Wikipedia
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In 2026, Baulcombe was announced as the next Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Arthur Tansley (Wikipedia)
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Educated at Highgate School, University College London and Trinity College, Cambridge, Tansley taught at these universities and at Oxford, where he served as Sherardian Professor of Botany until his retirement in 1937.
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