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1、University of CambridgeTheUniversity of Cambridge(informallyknownasCambridge UniversityorsimplyCambridge;abbreviatedasCantabinpost-nominals)isacollegiatepublicresearchuniversityinCambridge,England.Originallyfoundedin1209,itisthesecond-oldestuniversityintheEnglish-speakingworld,andtheworldsthird-olde

2、stsurvivinguniversity.EarlyrecordssuggestthattheuniversitygrewoutofanassociationformedbyscholarsleavingtheUniversityofOxfordafteradisputewithtownsfolk;thetwoancientuniversitieshavemanycommonfeaturesandareoftenjointlyreferredtoasOxbridge.IntroductionCambridgeisformedfromavarietyofinstitutionsthatincl

3、ude31constituentcollegesandcomprehensiveacademicdepartmentswhichareorganisedintosixSchools.Theuniversityoccupiesbuildingsthroughoutthetown,manyofwhichareofhistoricimportance.Cambridgehasmanynotablealumnilmna ,and90Nobellaureateshavebeenaffiliatedwiththeuniversity.CambridgeUniversityPress,adepartment

4、oftheuniversity,istheworldsoldestpublishinghouse,andthesecond-largestuniversitypressintheworld.Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell Charles Robert Darwin Isaac NewtonStephen William Hawking Francis Bacon George Gordon ByronTheuniversityslargestlibrary,CambridgeUniversityLibrary,holdsove