Ridley Hall, Cambridge

Cambridge / Regno Unito

Ridley Hall is a theological college located in Sidgwick Avenue in Cambridge in the United Kingdom, which trains men and women intending to take Holy Orders, as deacon or priest of the Church of England, and members of the laity working with children and young people, as lay pioneers and within a pastoral capacity such as lay chaplaincy.

Isaac Newton Institute

Cambridge / Regno Unito

The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences is an international research institute for mathematics and its many applications at the University of Cambridge. It is named after one of the university's most illustrious figures, the mathematician and natural philosopher Sir Isaac Newton and occupies buildings adjacent to the Cambridge Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Laboratorio Cavendish

Cambridge / Regno Unito

Il Laboratorio Cavendish è il dipartimento di fisica dell'Università di Cambridge, e fa parte della Scuola di Scienze Fisiche dell'università. Fu inaugurato nel 1874 come laboratorio di insegnamento ed era inizialmente situato nel New Museums Site, in Free School Lane, nel centro di Cambridge. In seguito a problemi di spazio, fu spostato nell'attuale sito di West Cambridge all'inizio degli anni 1970. Il dipartimento di chimica fisica lasciò il sito del Cavendish anteriormente, per poi trasferirsi, sotto la direzione di RG Norrish, nel nuovo edificio di chimica insieme al dipartimento di chimica in Lensfield Road: i due dipartimenti di chimica si fusero negli anni 1980. Il Dipartimento prende nome da Henry Cavendish, importante fisico del XIX secolo. Il professor James Clerk Maxwell, che sviluppò la teoria dell'elettromagnetismo, fu tra i fondatori del laboratorio Cavendish e fu il primo Professore Cavendish di fisica. 29 ricercatori del Cavendish hanno vinto il Premio Nobel. L'attuale direttore del laboratorio Cavendish è James Stirling. La Cattedra di fisica Cavendish è attualmente tenuta da Sir Richard Friend.

Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge

Cambridge / Regno Unito

The Department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge is the University of Cambridge's Earth Sciences department. First formed around 1731, the department incorporates the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge

Cambridge / Regno Unito

The Cambridge Faculty of Divinity is the divinity school of the University of Cambridge. It houses the Faculty Library.

Fitzwilliam College

Cambridge / Regno Unito

Il Fitzwilliam College è uno dei collegi costituenti l'Università di Cambridge, spesso soprannominato dagli studenti come Fitz. È stato fondato inizialmente nel 1869 sotto forma di luogo di residenza per studenti che non appartenevano a nessun collegio, senza che venisse considerato un collegio vero e proprio, di fronte al Fitzwilliam Museum di Cambridge. Nel 1966 venne riconosciuto ufficialmente come college, e spostato nella sua attuale posizione in cima a Castle Hill, nel nord della città.

Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge

Cambridge / Regno Unito

The Institute of Astronomy is the largest of the three astronomy departments in the University of Cambridge, and one of the largest astronomy sites in the UK. Around 180 academics, postdocs, visitors and assistant staff work at the department.Research at the department is made in a number of scientific areas, including exoplanets, stars, star clusters, cosmology, gravitational-wave astronomy, the high-redshift universe, AGN, galaxies and galaxy clusters. This is a mixture of observational astronomy, over the entire electromagnetic spectrum, computational theoretical astronomy, and analytic theoretical research. The Kavli Institute for Cosmology is also located on the department site. This Institute has an emphasis on The Universe at High Redshifts. The Cavendish Astrophysics Group are based in the Battcock Centre, a building in the same grounds.

Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge

Cambridge / Regno Unito

The Museum of Classical Archaeology is a museum in Cambridge, run by the Faculty of Classics of the University of Cambridge, England. Since 1983, it has been located in a purpose-built gallery on the first floor of the Faculty of Classics on the Sidgwick Site of the University. The museum is one of the few surviving collections of plaster casts of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture in the world. The collection consists of several hundred casts, including casts of some of the most famous surviving ancient Greek and Roman sculptures. Noteworthy casts include those of the Laocoön and His Sons, the Farnese Hercules, the Barberini Faun and Charioteer of Delphi. The Peplos Kore is perhaps the best known exhibit in the museum. It is a plaster cast of an ancient Greek statue of a young woman painted brightly as the original would have been, which was set up on the Acropolis of Athens, around 530 BCE. In 1975, the museum attempted to replicate the sculpture's original appearance by painting a cast of the figure. The replica was then displayed next to a second, unpainted cast as a challenge to the erroneous equation of ancient Greek sculpture with pure white marble.The museum also holds a large collection of sherds and epigraphic squeezes. The museum is open to the public Tuesday to Friday: 10.00am to 5.00pm and on Saturdays in University term time: 10.00am to 1.00pm. The museum is one of eight which make up the University of Cambridge Museums consortium. Its former home on Little St Mary's Lane was designed by Basil Champneys in 1883. In the 1970s it became evident that it was no longer adequate to house the collection, and it is now part of the buildings of Peterhouse.

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

Cambridge / Regno Unito

The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, is the geology museum of the University of Cambridge. It is part of the Department of Earth Sciences and is located on the University's Downing Site in Downing Street, central Cambridge, England. The Sedgwick Museum is the oldest of the eight museums which make up the University of Cambridge Museums consortium.