Cambridge University - Cambridgshire - UK.
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The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. It lies in East Anglia, on the River Cam, about 50 miles north of London
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Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/16/2012
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Cambridge has profoundly shaped the world we live in, and there’s a real sense of living history almost everywhere you look. The University and its 31 colleges dominate the city centre with atmospheric cobbled courts, chapels, gardens and famous bridges, between the colleges, backing onto the river Cam.
"Contributions to the advancement of science.
Many of the most important scientific discoveries and revolutions were made by Cambridge alumni. These include:-
Understanding the scientific method, by Francis Bacon
The laws of motion and the development of calculus, by Sir Isaac Newton
The development of thermodynamics, by Lord Kelvin
The discovery of the electron, by J. J. Thomson
The splitting of the atom, by Ernest Rutherford and of the nucleus by Sir John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton
The unification of electromagnetism, by James Clerk Maxwell
The discovery of hydrogen, by Henry Cavendish
Theory of Evolution by natural selection, by Charles Darwin
Mathematical synthesis of Darwinian selection with Mendelian genetics, by Ronald Fisher
The Turing machine, a basic model for computation, by Alan Turing
The structure of DNA, by Rosalind Franklin, Francis Crick, James D. Watson and Maurice Wilkins
Pioneering quantum mechanics, by Paul Dirac and string theory, by Michael Green" :- (
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