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Originally Posted by BMI
Agree. Oxford is up there with Harvard as sounding impressive to most people.
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What and Cambridge isn't - ROFL
In 1584 Cambridge University Press, the world's oldest-established press, begins its unbroken record of publishing every year until the present.
In 1627 John Harvard begins studying at Emmanuel College Cambridge as an undergraduate. He later emigrates to America and, in 1638, re-endows the college which now bears his name, at Cambridge, Massachusetts. That's why there is a Cambridge in the US because Harvard was named after a Cambridge Graduate.
The year after 1628 William Harvey of Gonville and Caius College, publishes his celebrated treatise, 'De motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus', (On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals), describing his discovery of the mechanism of blood circulation.
Cambridge is also where the Electon was discovered by J.J Thompson and where James Chadwick later discovered the neutron, where the atom was first split (Cockcroft, Walton and Rutherford), where the structure of DNA the building blocks of life were discovered by Crick, Watson (and Rosalind Franklin), where Isaac Newton published Principia, which hypothesizes the inverse-square law of universal gravitation, as well as discovering the colour spectrum, where the Jet Engine was first perfected by Frank Whittle, where James Clerk Maxwell published the 'Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism' and later outlines his theory of electromagnetic radiation.
Cambridge is where Charles Babbage, while an under-graduate at Peterhouse, has his first ideas for a calculating machine and later starts work on his 'difference engine', which he never completed but which heralds later inventions leading to the modern computer and and where Maurice Wilkes develops the EDSAC, Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, the first stored program digital computer to work successfully.
Cambridge is where Lawrence Bragg has an idea that will lead to his discovery of the mechanism of X-ray diffraction, and where Frederick Sanger of the University's Department of Biochemistry, wins the first of his two Nobel prizes for Chemistry for determining the specific sequence of the amino acid building blocks which form the protein insulin. Where Cesar Milstein, fellow of Darwin College won a Nobel prize for his work on monoclonal antibodies, the original `magic bullets'. His method of producing unlimited supplies of highly specific antibodies opens a new route for attacking unwanted cells such as cancers - revolutionising all aspects of medicine from pure research to drug design.
Cambridge is where Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Professor of Biochemistry, receives his Nobel prize for Physiology and Medicine for discovering vitamins. It was his work which gave rise to the study of a new subject, biochemistry, and inspired Sir William Dunn's trustees to endow the now world famous Sir William Dunn Institute of Biochemistry. It's also where Sir Charles Oatley, Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University's Department of Engineering, leads a team which develops the first scanning electron microscope, arguably the most important scientific instrument to be developed in the last 50 years. The instrument is later adapted to write the masks for today's electronic chips. Whilst Professor Michael Pepper and his team discover a new standard for electric current at Cambridge.
Cambridge is where John Maynard Keynes publishes his economic thoery, where Charles Darwin establishes his study and later theories in relation in relation to evolution, where Professor Paul Dirac receives his Nobel prize for Physics in relation to the existence of antimatter, the positron being the first antiparticle to be discovered. Positron Emission Tomography is today a vital technique in many areas of medical diagnosis. It's also where Anthony Hewish and Jocelyn Bell make the most exciting recent observation in astrophysics by discovering pulsating stars or 'pulsars' using Cambridge's Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory. Their work alters the course of modern cosmology and is also where Professor Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, publishes his book, 'A Brief History of Time', and where he continues to research.
Ninety-seven Nobel laureates, fifteen British prime ministers and ten Fields medalists have been affiliated with Cambridge as students, faculty or alumni.
Cambridge also set up a similar US Overseas Study Programme to the Rhodes Scholarship in 2000, it is known as the Gates Scholarship after generous benefactor Bill Gates.
Gates Cambridge Scholarship - Wikipedia
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