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Poems on the Underground.

Poems on the Underground archive arrives at Cambridge University Library

23 Feb 2024

Beloved poetry project archive contains letters from Nobel Prize winners and Poet Laureates

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Nobel Laureates of Cambridge

30 Sep 2022

What’s it like to win a Nobel Prize? Does it always come as a surprise? How does it change your life? Professor Didier Queloz, winner of the 2019...

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Professor Sir Roger Penrose

Roger Penrose wins 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovery about black holes

06 Oct 2020

Professor Sir Roger Penrose, Honorary Fellow and alumnus of St John’s College Cambridge and honorary doctor of the University, has jointly won the...

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Professor Queloz in his office at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.

Professor Didier Queloz wins 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for first discovery of an exoplanet

08 Oct 2019

Queloz jointly wins the 2019 Physics Nobel for his work on the first confirmation of an exoplanet – a planet that orbits a star other than our Sun...

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William Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter Ratcliffe (middle) and Gregg Semenza

Cambridge alumnus Sir Peter Ratcliffe awarded 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

07 Oct 2019

Sir Peter Ratcliffe, who studied Medicine at the University of Cambridge in 1972, has been jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...

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"A very Cambridge story"

20 Mar 2019

We spoke with Cambridge’s most recent Nobel Laureate about decades of research, spin-outs, pharma giants and the booming life sciences cluster in...

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Revealing the personal side of the atomic scientist who changed the world

22 Sep 2017

War diaries, scrapbooks, letters and photographs belonging to Sir John Cockcroft, Nobel Prize winner and one of the most influential scientists of...

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Oliver Hart and the Faculty of Economics at Cambridge

Professor Oliver Hart wins economics Nobel Prize

10 Oct 2016

Professor Oliver Hart, a former undergraduate at King’s College (1966), and a former Fellow of Churchill College, has been jointly awarded the 2016...

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Left to right: David Thouless, Duncan Haldane, and Michael Kosterlitz

Cambridge alumni win 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics

04 Oct 2016

Three alumni of the University of Cambridge were today awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering work in the field of condensed...

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Yoshinori Ohsumi – a deserving winner of the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine

03 Oct 2016

Yoshinori Ohsumi is a deserving winner of this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, whose work shows the value of basic research, writes...

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Professor Angus Deaton

Cambridge alumnus awarded Nobel economics prize

12 Oct 2015

Professor Angus Deaton, a graduate and Honorary Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, has been awarded The Sveriges Riksbank Prize...

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Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, President Elect of The Royal Society

Sir Venki Ramakrishnan confirmed as President Elect of the Royal Society

19 Mar 2015

Nobel laureate Sir Venkatraman (Venki) Ramakrishnan has been confirmed as President Elect of the Royal Society.

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