LOCATION

Official Website:
http://www.cambridge.gov.uk/

Population:
108,863 (2001 census)

SCHOOLS

School	Founded
Anglia Ruskin University	1858
Cambridge University

BIRTHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Douglas Adams	Author	11-Mar-1952	11-May-2001	Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Richard Attenborough	Film Director	29-Aug-1923	24-Aug-2014	Gandhi
Matthew Bellamy	Musician	9-Jun-1978		Muse frontman
Nigel Davenport	Actor	23-May-1928	25-Oct-2013	Chariots of Fire
Peter Fowler	Physicist	27-Feb-1923	8-Nov-1996	Cosmic radiation
David Gilmour	Guitarist	6-Mar-1946		Guitarist for Pink Floyd
John Maynard Keynes	Economist	5-Jun-1883	21-Apr-1946	Father of Keynesian economics
Lord British	Computer Programmer	4-Jul-1961		Ultima series creator
Olivia Newton-John	Singer	26-Sep-1948		Grease
Ronald Searle	Cartoonist	3-Mar-1920	30-Dec-2011	St. Trinian's
John E. Sulston	Scientist	27-Mar-1942		Genetic regulation of organ development
Simon Wells	Film Director	1961		The Time Machine
Andrew Wiles	Mathematician	11-Apr-1953		Proved Fermat's Last Theorem

DEATHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
E. J. H. Corner	Botanist	12-Jan-1906	14-Sep-1996	Durian theory
Henry Dale	Scientist	9-Jun-1875	23-Jul-1968	Acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter
Robert G. Edwards	Scientist	27-Sep-1925	10-Apr-2013	In vitro fertilization
Sir James Frazer	Anthropologist	1-Jan-1854	7-May-1941	The Golden Bough
G. H. Hardy	Mathematician	7-Feb-1877	1-Dec-1947	A Mathematician's Apology
Archibald V. Hill	Scientist	26-Sep-1886	3-Jun-1977	Studied muscles and nerves
Alan L. Hodgkin	Scientist	5-Feb-1914	20-Dec-1998	Electrical impulses in nerves
Frederick Hopkins	Scientist	20-Jun-1861	16-May-1947	Discovered vitamins
A. E. Housman	Poet	26-Mar-1859	30-Apr-1936	A Shropshire Lad
Frank Kermode	Critic	29-Nov-1919	17-Aug-2010	The Sense of an Ending
Alfred Marshall	Economist	26-Jul-1842	13-Jul-1924	Principles of Economics
James Clerk Maxwell	Physicist	13-Jun-1831	5-Nov-1879	Maxwell's equations
Lise Meitner	Physicist	7-Nov-1878	27-Oct-1968	Discovered nuclear fission
César Milstein	Scientist	8-Oct-1927	24-Mar-2002	Hybridoma technique (monoclonal antibodies)
Joseph Needham	Historian	9-Dec-1900	24-Mar-1995	Science and Civilization in China
Ernest Rutherford	Physicist	30-Aug-1871	19-Oct-1937	Father of nuclear physics
Frederick Sanger	Chemist	13-Aug-1918	19-Nov-2013	Two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry
John Venn	Mathematician	4-Aug-1834	4-Apr-1923	Venn diagrams
Ludwig Wittgenstein	Philosopher	26-Apr-1889	29-Apr-1951	Destroyed metaphysics

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