Arjo Wiggins Appleton

Advantages: High scholastic standards. Many are beautiful
Disadvantages: Very competitive

...is the second biggest college in Cambridge. It is richly endowed and is a large landowner. St John’s was founded in 1511 by Lady Margaret Beaufort. It has numerous famous former students including Wordsworth, William Wilberforce, Lord Palmerston, and nobel laureates Paul Dirac (physics), Edward Appleton (physics), Sir John Cockroft (physics), Frederick Sanger (chemistry), Maurice Wilkins (medicine), Abdus Salam (physics) and Allan Cormack (medicine). Pembroke Pembroke College was founded by Mary de St Paul in memory of her husband and is another attractive college with beautiful gardens and a lovely chapel designed by Sir Christopher Wren. Famous old boys of Pembroke include nobel prize winners Rodney Porter (medicine) and William Fowler (physics), the poets Gray, Spencer ,and Ted Hughes and Pitt the younger. The college colours are dark blue... Read review

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...with increased blood flow through tumours compared to surrounding parts of the body. The extra fluid this brings to the tumour could make it more visible in the scans. The company is testing its device at a local hospital and indications so far are that terahertz imaging could become an important tool in the early diagnosis of skin cancer. At present there is no accurate way of identifying skin cancers without taking a biopsy, says Arnone. Meanwhile, another British group is building the gadget that could make terahertz radiation as famous as X-rays: a video camera that will show us the world through terahertz eyes. Just such a device is almost ready at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire. And almost as impressive as the camera itself is its fast-track progress from conception to completion. As many a frustrated researcher will say... Read review

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