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The Cambridge Scholarship(1209-2010)
Francis Bacon(1561-1626)
philosopher, poet,Lord Chancellor,author of Novum Organum and The New Atlantis
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Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
poet,
play writer
William Harvey
(1578–1657) discovered the circulationof the blood
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Oliver Cromwell (1599 -1658)
Lord Protectorof England, Scotland,and Ireland.
John Harvard (1607-1638)
Bequeathed funds thatled to the foundation ofHarvard University .
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John Milton (1608-1674)
wrote Paradise Lost
Isaac Newton (1643-1727)
Lucasian Professorof mathematics
at Trinity College
made fundamental discoveriesabout gravity and light , and invented calculus.
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William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
"Let nature be your
teacher"
romantic poet
Samuel Coleridge(1772-1834)
poet, wroteKubla Khan
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Lord Byron (1788-1824)
poet, wroteChild Harold and
Don Juan
Charles Babbage(1791-1871)
mathematician
built the forerunner of modern computers
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William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)
Inventor of photography
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Poet Laureate - wroteMaud, In Memoriam
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Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
established the theory of evolution
Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883)
translated the Rubáiyátof Omar Khayyám
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William Thackeray (1811-1868)
novelist
Arthur Cayley (1821-1895)
mathematician, invented matrices
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Francis Galton (1822-1911)
Scientist; meteorology, heredity
Lord Kelvin (1824-1907) physicist,defined the absolute temperature scale
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James Clerk Maxwell(1831-1879)
physicist; discovered
electromagnetism
James Frazer(1854-1941)
anthropologist
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Alfred North Whitehead(1861-1947)
philosopher,
mathematician
Lord Carnarvon (1866-1923)
funded the discovery ofTut'ankhamun's tomb
egyptologist
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Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)
split the atomin 1903
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
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philosopherandpeace activits
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G. E. Moore(1873-1958)
philosopher, author of Principia Ethica
Godfrey Harold Hardy (1877-1947)
mathematician,wrote Mathematician’sApology
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A. A. Milne (1882-1956)
novelits,Winnie the Pooh
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
novelist
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Arthur Eddington (1882-1944)
astronomer,observed the Solar eclipseof 29 May 1919 that provided one of the earliest confirmations of Einstein's theory of general relativity
John Maynard Keynes(1883-1946)
economist
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Srinivasa Ramanujan(1887-1920)
mathematician; analytic number
theory, elliptic integrals
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
author of Tractatus
Logico-Philosophicusand
PhilosophicalInvestigations
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Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964)
First Prime Ministerof India , 1949-1964
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
Russian and English
novelist
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Paul Dirac (1902-1984)
physicist,discoveredthe
existence of positron
Frank Plumpton Ramsey(1903-1930)
mathematician,philosopher,economist
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Francis Crick (1916-2004)& James Watson(1928-)
discovered the structure of DNA
Alan Turing (1921-1954)
mathematician, originator of the
computer, wartime cryptographer
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David Attenborough (1926-)
naturalist ,film maker
Ted Hughes (1930-1998) & Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Poet Laurate
poet, novelist,children's author
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Amartya Sen(1933-)
economistphilosopher
Stephen Hawking(1942-)
physicist
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Rowan Williams (1950)
Archbishop ofCanterbury
Cambridge Legacy
• human seriousness
• intellectual honesty
• breakthrough creativity
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