page_title: Trinity College, Cambridge
section_title: Nobel Prize winners
hierarchical_section_title: Trinity College, Cambridge / People associated with the college / Nobel Prize winners
caption_attribution_description: Bertrand Russell 1894
context_page_description: Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England. The college was founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII. With around 600 undergraduates, 300 graduates, and over 180 fellows, it is the largest college in either of the Oxbridge universities by number of undergraduates. In terms of total student numbers, it is second only to Homerton College, Cambridge.
  Members of Trinity have won 34 Nobel Prizes out of the 116 won by members of Cambridge University, the highest number of any college at either Oxford or Cambridge. Five Fields Medals in mathematics have been won by members of the college and one Abel Prize has been won.
  Trinity alumni include six British prime ministers, physicists Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell, Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr, mathematicians Srinivasa Ramanujan and Michael Atiyah, the poets Lord Byron and Lord Tennyson, historians Lord Macaulay, G. M. Trevelyan and E.H. Carr, philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell, and Soviet spies Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, and Anthony Blunt.
caption: Bertrand Russell
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