About the University of Cambridge and King's College
The history of Cambridge dates back more than 1,000 years, when Roman troops established a camp of about 25 acres in Cambridge, and later William the Great built a castle near Castle Hill, Cambridge. According to the data, in 1209, a group of young Oxford scholars who were forced to move due to differences in religion, society or academic thought came to Cambridge, which is the beginning of the University of Cambridge. Since the founding of the University of Cambridge, it has gradually developed into a vibrant university town.
Cambridge was upgraded from Cambridge Town to Cambridge City by the British Royal Family in 1951. Cambridge is located in a very good location, so trade here flourished from a very early age.
By the eighteenth century, the town of Cambridge was overcrowded, and many parts of the suburbs were slowly becoming inhabited. With the need for population growth, Cambridge opened to trains in 1845. Because the University of Cambridge insisted that the train station should not be too close to the university, requiring at least a mile of distance, Cambridge's train station was where it is now. At that time, it was a horse-drawn carriage to transport passengers into the town, and then when there was a car, it was transported by bus.
In the twentieth century, Cambridge developed rapidly, especially in industry. Cambridge industry is mainly two parts, one is the printing and publishing industry, and the other is the manufacturing of scientific instruments and equipment. Cambridge University Press (Cambridge University Press), which has a long reputation in the world, has played a very important role, basically meeting the needs of the development of Cambridge print publishing industry. At that time, the development of the manufacturing industry of scientific instruments and equipment was mainly due to the development of the Cavendish physics laboratory. Cavendish laboratory is the University of Cambridge physics department, but also the world experimental physics pioneer, a large number of laboratory research work are based on a variety of novel physical experiments, so almost all scientific instruments and equipment must be designed and manufactured by themselves, with the rapid development and expansion of the laboratory, Cavendish laboratory for scientific instruments and equipment continues to expand the demand greatly stimulate the development of Cambridge scientific instrument manufacturing. For example, the famous Cambridge Instruments and W.G. Pye Electric Company was a scientific instrument supplier to Cavendish Laboratories, and later became a world-class famous enterprise. Today, the rapid development of the Cavendish laboratory and industry has become an important source of power for Cambridge's prosperity.
In 1975, with the financial support of Trinity College and the technical and human support of Cavendish's laboratories, Cambridge Science Park was officially established and became a great success, becoming a model of the perfect combination of academia and industry in the world, and soon the whole of Europe was rushing to follow suit. In its first decade, small and medium-sized high-tech enterprises have grown rapidly, but there are some famous examples of failure. Cavendish Laboratory is inextricably linked with Cambridge Science Park, many high-tech companies are established by Cavendish professors, teachers or graduates, as well as long-term and short-term scientific research cooperation, the laboratory trains a large number of scientific talents for the park, and becomes a strong technical backing for the park. Today, the Cambridge Science Park is the largest and most successful high-tech hub in Europe, and "Cambridge" has become synonymous with high technology in England.
It was founded in 1209 by a group of teachers who had fled from the University of Oxford to escape fighting, and King Henry III granted Cambridge a monopoly on teaching in 1231. The University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford are known as the two best universities in the United Kingdom, and because these two ancient universities are similar in many aspects such as their educational models, they are often collectively called "Oxbridge" ("Oxbridge"), and 90 Nobel Prize winners come from this school (the number of people who have actually worked or taught at this school may be more, it is said that there are more than 100). Because the official data of the University of Cambridge is based on whether a student or teacher is a member of the college (Membership/Fellowship).
The University of Cambridge is located in the town of Cambridge, 50 miles north of London. The town of Cambridge itself is an English town with about 100,000 inhabitants. The town is crossed by a river called the River Cam. The Jian River is a small river that runs north-south and zigzags forward, with beautiful scenery and green grass on both sides of the Jian River, and many exquisitely designed and beautiful bridges are erected on the river, among which the Mathematical Bridge, Grey Bridge and Sigh Bridge are the most famous, from which the name Cambridge is derived. The University of Cambridge itself does not have a designated campus, no walls, and no school plaque. The vast majority of colleges, institutes, libraries and laboratories are built on the banks of the Sword River in the town of Cambridge, as well as in various locations within the town. It is really just a loosely organized consortium of colleges, with a high degree of autonomy for each college, but all adhering to a uniform Cambridge University Charter, which was drafted by the university's legislature and amended annually. The University of Cambridge is only responsible for examinations and degree awarding, and the specific criteria for admitting students are determined by each college and self-admissions. Cambridge's 31 colleges are scattered across a town of only about 100,000 people. These academies were built in different eras, the earliest being seven or eight hundred years old. Just like their architecture, they are unique.
The University of Cambridge also has a number of administrative bodies that manage and decide on all matters within the college. These include the Superintendent, the Deputy Superintendent, the Senate, the Regent, the Parliament and the Council.
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Charles Percy Snow C.P. Snow (October 15, 1905 – July 1, 1980) was a British scientist and novelist. His friends included mathematician Gaudrey Harold Hardy, physicist Patrick Blackett and X-ray crystallographer John Desmond Bernard.
Chinese name
Charles Percy Snow
Foreign name
Charles Percy Snow C.P.Snow
Place of birth
Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Date of birth
October 15, 1905
Biography
Born in Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, England, Snow received a Master of Science degree from the University of Leicester and a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1930. From 1930 to 1950 he worked in research, teaching and administration at Christ's College, Cambridge, as well as literary creation. In 1934, he published his second novel, The Search (1934), establishing his reputation as a novelist. During and after World War II, he served as an assistant to Harold Wilson's British Labour government. In 1950, Snow married novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson. In 1964-66, he served as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Technology. In 1957 he was knighted and in 1960 he became a lifetime knight, Baron Snow of Leicester.
His friends included mathematician Gaudrey Harold Hardy, physicist Patrick Blackett and X-ray crystallographer John Desmond Bernard.
Individual works
Snow's first novel was the detective novel Death under Sail (1932). He also wrote a biography of Anthony Trollope.
He is better known as the author of Stangers and Brothers, a series of political novels about intellectuals in the modern academic and political context. The Masters, the most famous of the novels, discusses the internal politics of a Cambridge college by describing a series of events before it elects its president. It expresses the author's views as an insider, and also exposes the influence of things outside academia on the decisions of scholars who are considered objective. "The Dean" won the 1954 James Tate Black Memorial Award along with "The New Men." The Corridors of Power adds an idiom to today's English lexicon.
The Realists is a test of the work of these eight writers: Stendhal, Balzac, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Benito Pérez Galdós, Henry James and Marcel Proust, and Snow makes a solid defense of the realist novel
novel
Strangers and Brothers" series
Time of Hope (1949)
George Passant (first published as Strangers and Brothers, 1940)
《富者之仁》（The Conscience of the Rich，1958）
《亮与暗》（The Light and the Dark，1947）
The Masters (1951)
The New Man (1954)
Homecomings (1956)
Li Ka-shing, a philanthropic billionaire from Cambridge
Li Ka-shing, a great philanthropist, was awarded the title of Doctor of Laws, honorary date, from the University of Cambridge for his thirst for knowledge (he could not afford to go to school when he was a child) and his enthusiasm for education (growing up to support education) coincided with Cambridge's motto. This title is not like anyone in China can get a "professor" or something, and those who have won this honor are all the world's first-class cattle people, such as Einstein and Eisenhower. Later, in order to support the medical research of his alma mater and benefit more people, Li Ka-shing donated a lot of money to the Cambridge University Cancer Research Centre, and the British Cancer Research Fund Association was also established with his donation. Why donate so much money? Li Ka-shing said: "Cambridge is one of the world's top universities, and I am convinced that the results of the research work carried out at this institute will make a valuable contribution to the development of medicine around the world. The implication is that the best universities deserve the best facilities. This Chinese alumnus in Cambridge really gave Chinese a fight!
Emma Thompson (Emma Thompson), born on April 15, 1959 in London, England, is an English actress and playwright. In 1980, after graduating, Emma Thompson gradually entered the television industry. In 1993, Emma won the 65th Academy Award for Best Actress for the film "Howard Manor". In 1994, she was nominated for the 66th Oscar for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for the films "Leaving Traces in the Day" and "In the Name of My Father", respectively. In 1995, she participated in and participated in the screenplay adaptation of "Sense and Sensibility", which won her an Oscar for best adapted screenplay. In 2003, she joined Harry Potter. In 2005, she starred in "Nanny McPhee". In 2010, Thompson was named on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2012, Emma Thompson played "Agent O" in "Men in Black 3".
Sir Isaac Newton (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727), President of the Royal Society, a famous British physicist, an encyclopedic "all-rounder", author of "The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy" and "Optics".
In his 1687 treatise The Laws of Nature, he described gravity and the three laws of motion. These descriptions laid the foundation for the scientific view of the physical world for the next three centuries and became the foundation of modern engineering. By demonstrating the consistency between Kepler's laws of planetary motion and his theory of gravity, he showed that the motion of terrestrial objects and celestial bodies obeys the same laws of nature; It provided strong theoretical support for the heliocentric theory and promoted the scientific revolution.
In mechanics, Newton clarified the principle of conservation of momentum and angular momentum, and proposed Newton's laws of motion [1]. In optics, he invented the reflecting telescope and developed the theory of color based on the observation that a prism diverges white light into the visible spectrum. He also systematically formulated the laws of cooling and studied the speed of sound.
In mathematics, Newton shared with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz the honor of developing calculus. He also proved the generalized binomial theorem , proposed Newton's method to approach the zero point of a function, and contributed to the study of power series.
In economics, Newton proposed the gold standard.
Chinese name
Isaac newton
Foreign name
Isaac Newton
nationality
United Kingdom
Place of birth
Woolthorpe Village, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Date of birth
January 4, 1643
Date of death
March 31, 1727
occupation
Physicist, mathematician
Graduate school
Grantham Secondary School, University of Cambridge
faith
deism
* Major achievements
He proposed the law of universal gravitation, Newton's law of motion and Leibniz co-invented calculus
* Invention of the reflecting telescope and the principle of light dispersion
* Known as the "Father of Modern Physics"
Representative works
"Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy", "Optics"
Place of death
Kensington, London, United Kingdom
Research Areas
Physics, mathematics, astronomy, science, etc
Glory received
President of the Royal Society
Served in his later years
Director and Superintendent of the Royal Mint
intelligence quotient
290
Books overflow, time passes - an introduction to King's College
(1) Founding background
King's College - founded in 1441 by King Henry VI of England, hence the name "King's" College. When it was first founded, there was only one dean and 70 students, but all of them came from the famous Eton College in their homeland.
It took nearly a hundred years for the entire building to be completed! Originally a prosperous bazaar by the river, Henry VI took a fancy to this feng shui and decided to forcibly remove the homeowners on the riverbank, and it took three years to finally strip the land, which may be the earliest urban renewal project in English history.
(2) Chapels
In order to show the king's deep pockets, the college was founded in the pursuit of grand architecture, and the most famous of its architectural complex is the King's College Chapel, whose towering spire and magnificent Gothic architecture have become the symbol and glory of the entire city of Cambridge.
The fan-domed ceiling of the King's College Chapel, supported by 22 buttresses, was built in 1515 by the master craftsman Vastaire. The details of the crown and the coat of arms of the Tudor rose on the west door reflect Henry VIII's dream of English hegemony. The 16th-century stained glass windows on the walls are based on biblical stories.
The screen in the chapel is an excellent example of Tudor carpentry, separating the vestibule from the choir class, above which a huge 17th-century organ box is decorated with two angels holding trumpets. Behind the altarpiece is a decorative painting of "The Adoration of the Magi" painted by Rubens' for the convent of the White Nuns in Belgium in 1634.
The king himself planned the entire layout of the college, but only the chapel was built according to the king's plan, and this work alone took 100 years and was completed in three phases. This chapel is indeed one of the most spectacular Gothic buildings at Cambridge University.
(3) Customs and traditions
Every Christmas Eve, the chapel choir broadcasts carols to the whole of the UK via the BBC (the company that filmed Sherlock).
At King's College, even the College cafeteria is full of momentum. King's College has maintained a tradition for a long time: every evening students must wear robes to the cafeteria to wait for a meal, when the professors enter, they all stand up, and the professors need to reach the VIP table through a long aisle, and when all the students and teachers arrive, one student leads the prayer in Latin, after which the professors can enjoy a sumptuous dinner and wine, while the students can only taste the quality of food. Today, however, this tradition has been abolished.
Now when it comes to dining, the college is also known for daring to innovate. It is said that there is no need to wear black robes at formal dinners, there is no high table set up for tutors, and there is no need to stand solemnly when teachers enter, because it is believed that these teachers deserve respect for their learning, not their clothing and courtesy.
Today, King's College is one of the more open of all Cambridge colleges – 80% of its students come from British government schools, not the children of the wealthy.
King's College is most proud of its history in 1689, when the faculty and students of the College successfully resisted the King's order to appoint Newton (you read that right, Newton) from Trinity College as President of King's College. It shows the dignity and independence of King's College. Huh, you say this doesn't fit the subtitle?
The academy is also known for its innovative nature, and it is said that there is no need to wear black robes at formal dinners, no high tables for tutors, and no need to stand solemnly when instructors enter, because it is believed that these tutors deserve respect for their learning, not for their clothing and courtesy.
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