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Peterhouse, Cambridge

Peterhouse is the oldest college in the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1284 by Hugo de Balsham, Bishop of Ely. Peterhouse has (2001) approximately 250 undergraduates, 90 graduate students, and 45 fellows, making it one of the smallest Colleges in the University of Cambridge.

Famous alumni of Peterhouse

• Charles Babbage (His analytical engine anticipated the modern computer)
• Richard Baker (News reader)
• Henry Cavendish (Scientist)
• Christopher Cockerell
• Richard Crashaw (Poet)
• James Dewar
• Duke of Grafton (Prime Minister 1768-1770)
• Thomas Gray (Poet)
• Colin Charles Greenwood (Bass Player of Radiohead)
• Michael Howard
• Lord Kelvin
• Sir A Klug OM PRS (Nobel Prize Winner, Peterhouse Fellow)
• Archer Martin (Nobel Prize for developing partition chromatography)
• James Mason (British film star)
• Chris Mead (ornithologist)
• Sam Mendes (Film producer)
• Andrew Perne
• Max Perutz (Nobel Prize for determining the structure of haemoproteins)
• Michael Portillo
• Claudia Pugh-Thomas (Trapeze artist)
• John Whitgift
• Frank Whittle (Developed jet propulsion)

External links

• Official Web site

Colleges of the University of Cambridge

Christ's | Churchill | Clare | Clare Hall | Corpus Christi | Darwin | Downing | Emmanuel | Fitzwilliam | Girton | Gonville and Caius | Homerton | Hughes Hall | Jesus | King's | Lucy Cavendish | Magdalene | New Hall | Newnham | Pembroke | Peterhouse | Queens' | Robinson | St Catharine's | St Edmund's | St John's | Selwyn | Sidney Sussex | Trinity | Trinity Hall | Wolfson

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