Editing St John's College, Cambridge (section)

===Rivalry with Trinity===
[[File:Bridge between John's and Trinity - geograph.org.uk - 742998.jpg|thumb|Bridge between St John's and Trinity]]
St John's remains a great rival of [[Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity College]], which is its main competitor in sports and academia. The rivalry can be traced to [[Henry VIII]] founding Trinity after having ordered the execution of [[John Fisher]], whose efforts had ensured the foundation of St John's. Over the years, numerous anecdotes and myths have arisen, involving students and fellows of both colleges. The rivalry is often cited as the reason why the older courts of Trinity have no "J" staircases, despite including other letters in alphabetical order (it should be mentioned that a far more likely reason is the absence of the letter "J" in the Latin alphabet). There are also two small muzzle-loading cannons on Trinity's bowling green pointing in the direction of John's, though this orientation may be coincidental. Similarly, the eagle on top of the entrance to St John's New Court is said to have been sculptured so that it shuns even the sight of its neighbouring rival. Generally, however, the colleges maintain a cordial relationship with one other; compatriotism led to the splitting of the atomic nucleus in 1932 by [[Ernest Walton]] (Trinity) and [[John Cockcroft]] (St John's), for which they jointly received the 1951 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]].