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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