Famous alumni of Peterhouse
Charles Babbage (His analytical engine anticipated the modern computer) Richard Baker (News reader) Henry Cavendish Christopher Cockerell [Richard Crashaw]? (Poet) James Dewar Duke of Grafton (Prime Minister 1768-1770) Thomas Gray (Poet) Colin Charles Greenwood (Bass Player of Radiohead) Michael Howard [Lord Kelvin]? Sir A Klug OM PRS (Nobel Prize Winner, Peterhouse Fellow) [Archer Martin]? (Nobel Prize for developing partition chromatography) [James Mason]? (British film star) [Sam Mendes]? (Film producer) [Andrew Perne]? [Max Perutz]? (Nobel Prize for determining the structure of haemoproteins) [Michael Portillo]? [Claudia Pugh-Thomas]? (Trapeze artist) [John Whitgift]? [Frank Whittle]? (Developed [jet propulsion]?)
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