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King's College, Cambridge

King's was founded in 1441 by Henry VI. The college, along with most others at the university, had been all-male since its foundation. The first women students arrived at King's in 1972. Comparing academic performance King's ranked thirteenth out of a total of twenty-nine rated colleges at the University of Cambridge in 2012. Notable alumni of the college includes EM Forster, Frederick Sanger, Alan Turing (the 'Father of Theoretical Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence'), John Maynard Keynes (one of the founders of modern macroeconomics - Keynesian economics) and others. There are six Nobel laureates who were either students or fellows of King's including Frederick Sanger, the double Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1958, 1980).

 

King's College, Cambridge

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