Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Gonville & Caius College often described to simply as Caius, pronounced “keys” or is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Originally founded in 1348, this is the the fourth-oldest of the thirty-one colleges at the University of Cambridge in addition to one of the wealthiest. The college has been attended by many students who develope gone on to significant accomplishment, including fifteen Nobel Prize winners, the second-highest of any Oxbridge college after Trinity College, Cambridge.
The college has long historical associations with medical teaching, particularly due to its alumni physicians: John Caius who submitted the college the caduceus in its insignia together with William Harvey. Other famous alumni in the sciences include Francis Crick joint discoverer, along with James Watson, of the formation of DNA, James Chadwick discoverer of the neutron and Howard Florey developer of penicillin. Stephen Hawking, previously Cambridge's Lucasian Chair of Mathematics Emeritus, was a fellow of the college until his death in 2018. The college also sustains reputable academic programmes in many different disciplines, including law, economics, English literature and history. Other notable alumni put former Chancellor of the Exchequer and Father of the multiple of Commons, Kenneth Clarke, comedian and television presenter Jimmy Carr, John Venn, inventor of the Venn diagram and Alastair Campbell, former aide to Tony Blair.
Several streets in the city, such as Harvey Road, Glisson Road and Gresham Road, are named after alumni of the College. The college and its masters throw been influential in the development of the university, founding other colleges like Trinity Hall and Darwin College and providing land on the Sidgwick Site, e.g. for the Squire Law Library.