Trinity College

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England. The college was founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII. Trinity is one of the oldest and most prestigious colleges in Cambridge, with the largest financial endowment out of all Oxbridge colleges. Trinity is renowned for having some of the most distinctive architecture within Cambridge, with its Great Court reputed to be the largest enclosed courtyard in Europe. Academically, Trinity performs exceptionally as measured by the Tompkins Table , coming in first from 2011 to 2017, with 42.5% of undergraduates obtaining a first in 2019.
Members of Trinity have won 34 Nobel Prizes out of the 121 won by members of Cambridge University, the highest number of any college at either Oxford or Cambridge. Members of the college have won five Fields Medals in mathematics and one Abel Prize. Trinity alumni include the father of the scientific method Francis Bacon, six British prime ministers , physicists Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell, Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr, mathematicians Srinivasa Ramanujan and Michael Atiyah, the poets Lord Byron and Lord Tennyson, historians Lord Macaulay, G. M. Trevelyan and E.H. Carr, philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell , and Soviet spies Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, and Anthony Blunt.

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