University of Cambridge
The university is one of the oldest universities in the world and a leading academic center and a self-governing community of scholars. Its reputation for academic excellence is recognized worldwide and reflects the intellectual achievement of its students as well as the world-class original research carried out by its staff
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The university is mainly known for its great scientists and mathematicians, such as Isaac Newton (dynamics, gravitation), Charles Darwin (theory of evolution), William Harvey (blood circulation), Paul Dirac, J. J. Thomson (discovery of the electron), Ernest Rutherford (structure of the atom) , Jane Goodall, James Clerk Maxwell, Francis Crick, Alan Turing, Stephen Hawking or Frederick Sanger. A number of graduates have been awarded the Nobel Prize, making the University of Cambridge the university with the largest number of Nobel Prize laureates.
