University of Cambridge – 1209 – Cambridge, England

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In 1209, college students fleeing from Oxford after a dispute with the townspeople led to the execution of  in their fellows. by using the usage of 1226 the scholars have been severa enough to shape an corporation, and in 1231 they have been granted an enhancement thru King Henry III. In 1244 the Papal Bull of Pope Gregory IX gave graduates of Cambridge the proper to educate “anywhere in Christendom”

Alumni of the college have a whole of 61 Nobel prizes, thirteen extra than the undergraduates of each other university. Cambridge teachers have moreover acquired eight Fields Medals and multiple Abel Prizes.


Motto: Hinc lucem et pocula sacra
Translation: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge

Notable Alumni:
John Milton
Jane Goodall
John Cleese
Sylvia Plath
Alan Turing
Douglas Adams
Francis Bacon
Isaac Newton
Charles Darwin
Stephen Hawking

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