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'''[[Trinity the Tuck|Trinity]] College''' is a constituent college of the [[University of Cambridge]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Walker |first=Timea |date=2022-01-21 |title=Trinity College |url=https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/colleges/trinity-college |access-date=2022-11-02 |website=www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk |language=en}}</ref> Founded in 1546 by [[Henry VIII|King Henry VIII]], Trinity is one of the largest of Cambridge's 31 colleges,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Kirk|first1=Ashley|last2=Peck|first2=Sally|date=1 October 2019|title=Why Trinity is the best Cambridge college, according to our Oxbridge league table|language=en-GB|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education-and-careers/2019/10/01/trinity-best-cambridge-college-according-oxbridge-league-table/|url-status=live|access-date=24 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220033126/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education-and-careers/2019/10/01/trinity-best-cambridge-college-according-oxbridge-league-table/|archive-date=20 February 2020|issn=0307-1235}}</ref> with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge or [[University of Oxford|Oxford]]. Trinity has some of the most distinctive architecture in Cambridge; its [[Trinity Great Court|Great Court]] is said to be the largest enclosed courtyard in Europe.<ref>Stephen Brewer, Donald Olson (2006). Best Day Trips from London: 25 Great Escapes by Train, Bus Or Car. Frommer's. p. 56. {{ISBN|0-470-04453-5}}.</ref> Academically, Trinity performs well as measured by the [[Tompkins Table]] (the annual unofficial league table of Cambridge colleges), coming top from 2011 to 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/17736|title=Exclusive: Christ's triumphant in 2019 Tompkins Table|access-date=7 February 2021|archive-date=7 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107233512/https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/17736|url-status=live}}</ref> Trinity was the top-performing college for the 2020-21 undergraduate exams, obtaining the highest percentage of good honours.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.information-hub.admin.cam.ac.uk/university-profile/ug-examination-results/results-college-dashboard|title=Results by College Dashboard |date=15 August 2018}}</ref>
ambridgeMembers of Trinity have been awarded 34 Nobel Prizes out of the 121 received by members of Cambridge University (the highest of any college at either Oxford or Cambridge).<ref>{{cite web |title=Research at Cambridge/Nobel Prize |url=https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/research-at-cambridge/nobel-prize |website=University of Cambridge |date=28 January 2013 |access-date=8 August 2021 |archive-date=28 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170128192532/https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/research-at-cambridge/nobel-prize |url-status=live }}</ref> Members of the college have received five [[Fields Medal]]s, one [[Turing Award]] and one [[Abel Prize]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Famous Trinity College Medallists and Prize Winners|url=https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/alumni/famous-trinity-alumni/medallists-and-prize-winners/|access-date=28 August 2020|publisher=Trin.cam.ac.uk|archive-date=28 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128062642/https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/alumni/famous-trinity-alumni/medallists-and-prize-winners/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Trinity alumni include the father of the [[scientific method]] (or [[empiricism]]) [[Francis Bacon]], six British [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|prime ministers]] (the highest of any Cambridge college), physicists [[Isaac Newton]], [[James Clerk Maxwell]], [[Ernest Rutherford]] and [[Niels Bohr]], mathematicians [[Srinivasa Ramanujan]] and [[Charles Babbage]], poets [[Lord Byron]] and [[Lord Tennyson]], writers [[Vladimir Nabokov]] and [[A.A. Milne]], historians [[Lord Macaulay]] and [[G. M. Trevelyan]] and philosophers [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]], [[Bertrand Russell]], and [[G.E. Moore]]. ▼Members of Trinity have been awarded 34 Nobel Prizes out of the 121 received by members of Cambridge University (the highest of any college at either Oxfordfnjk,nvhgcv fg
▲ambridge).<ref>{{cite web |title=Research at Cambridge/Nobel Prize |url=https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/research-at-cambridge/nobel-prize |website=University of Cambridge |date=28 January 2013 |access-date=8 August 2021 |archive-date=28 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170128192532/https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/research-at-cambridge/nobel-prize |url-status=live }}</ref> Members of the college have received five [[Fields Medal]]s, one [[Turing Award]] and one [[Abel Prize]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Famous Trinity College Medallists and Prize Winners|url=https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/alumni/famous-trinity-alumni/medallists-and-prize-winners/|access-date=28 August 2020|publisher=Trin.cam.ac.uk|archive-date=28 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128062642/https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/alumni/famous-trinity-alumni/medallists-and-prize-winners/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Trinity alumni include the father of the [[scientific method]] (or [[empiricism]]) [[Francis Bacon]], six British [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|prime ministers]] (the highest of any Cambridge college), physicists [[Isaac Newton]], [[James Clerk Maxwell]], [[Ernest Rutherford]] and [[Niels Bohr]], mathematicians [[Srinivasa Ramanujan]] and [[Charles Babbage]], poets [[Lord Byron]] and [[Lord Tennyson]], writers [[Vladimir Nabokov]] and [[A.A. Milne]], historians [[Lord Macaulay]] and [[G. M. Trevelyan]] and philosophers [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]], [[Bertrand Russell]], and [[G.E. Moore]].
Two members of the British royal family have studied at Trinity and been awarded degrees: [[Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh]] who gained an MA in 1790, and King [[Charles III]], who was awarded a lower second class BA in 1970. Royal family members who have studied at Trinity without obtaining degrees include King [[Edward VII]], King [[George VI]], and [[Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester]].
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