Editing Peterhouse, Cambridge (section)

== People associated with Peterhouse ==
{{See also|List of Masters of Peterhouse, Cambridge|List of members of Peterhouse, Cambridge|Category:Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge|Category:Fellows of Peterhouse, Cambridge|Category:Masters of Peterhouse, Cambridge|List of Honorary Fellows of Peterhouse, Cambridge}}

Members of Peterhouse — as masters, fellows (including honorary fellows) or students — are known as ''Petreans.''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.petreans.net/petreans/eminent-petreans |title=Eminent |publisher=Petreans |access-date=20 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301035742/http://www.petreans.net/petreans/eminent-petreans |archive-date=1 March 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

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File:John Whitgift from NPG.jpg|[[John Whitgift]]<br /> Archbishop of Canterbury
File:Grafton3.JPG|[[Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton|The Duke of Grafton]]<br />Prime Minister of Great Britain
File:PortraitThomasGrayByJohnGilesEccart1747to1748.jpg|[[Thomas Gray]]<br />Poet, known for the [[Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard]]
File:Lord-ellenborough.jpg|[[Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough]]<br />Lord Chief Justice
File:CharlesBabbage.jpg|[[Charles Babbage]] <br />Inventor of the [[difference engine]], "Father of the computer"<ref>{{cite book|author = Halacy, Daniel Stephen|title = Charles Babbage, Father of the Computer|url = https://archive.org/details/charlesbabbagefa00hala|url-access = registration|year = 1970|publisher = Crowell-Collier Press|isbn = 0-02-741370-5 }}</ref>
File:Cavendish Henry signature.jpg|[[Henry Cavendish]]<br />Scientist, discoverer of [[hydrogen]]
File:James Dewar.jpg|[[James Dewar|Sir James Dewar]]<br />Chemist, physicist, inventor of the [[Dewar flask]]
File:Baron Kelvin 1906.jpg|[[Lord Kelvin]]<br />Inventor and pioneer in [[thermodynamics]], [[electricity]] and [[telegraphy]]
File:James Clerk Maxwell.png|[[James Clerk Maxwell]]<br />Formulator of classical [[electromagnetic theory]]
File:Hadi as Davis Cup c.jpg|[[Syed Mohammad Hadi]]<br /> Sportsman
File:Frank Whittle CH 011867.jpg|[[Frank Whittle|Sir Frank Whittle]]<br />Inventor of the [[jet engine]]

File:Herbert Butterfield (2).jpg|[[Herbert Butterfield]]<br/>Historian, philosopher, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
File:James Mason - still.JPG|[[James Mason]]<br />Actor

File:World Debate - Niall Ferguson crop.jpg|[[Niall Ferguson]]<br />Historian
File:Michael Portillo by Regents College cropped.jpg|[[Michael Portillo]]<br />broadcaster and former politician
File:CGreenwood2006-06Radiohead.jpg|[[Colin Greenwood]]<br />Bassist, [[Radiohead]]

File:Roger Scruton by Pete Helme.jpg|[[Roger Scruton]]<br /> Philosopher
File:Sam Mendes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 2013.jpg|alt=Sam Mendes|[[Sam Mendes]]                         Film and stage director, producer and screenwriter 
File:David mitchell.jpg|[[David Mitchell (comedian)|David Mitchell]]<br />Actor/comedian ([[Mitchell and Webb]]) and writer
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=== Nobel laureates ===
Peterhouse has five [[Nobel laureates]] associated with it, either as former students or fellows.

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* [[John Kendrew]] – [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] (1962) for determining the first atomic structures of proteins using X-ray [[crystallography]].
* [[Aaron Klug|Sir Aaron Klug]] – [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] (1982) for his development of [[crystallographic electron microscopy]].
* [[Michael Levitt (biophysicist)|Michael Levitt]] – [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] (2013) for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.
* [[Archer Martin]] – [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] (1952) for his invention of partition [[chromatography]].
* [[Max Perutz]] – [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] (1962) for determining the first atomic structures of proteins using X-ray [[crystallography]].
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