Editing St John's College, Cambridge (section)

==People associated with the college==
{{main|List of alumni of St John's College, Cambridge}}
{{main|List of Masters of St John's College, Cambridge}}
''See also [[:Category:Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge]]'', [[:Category:Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge]]''.
[[File:BeaufortLadyM CU SJ 170sm.jpg|thumb|180px|Hall portrait of the foundress [[Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby]] by [[Rowland Lockey]]]]
Notable Johnians include former Heads of State, politicians, academics, Nobel laureates, poets and writers. Over 1000 former members of St John's College appear in the [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]].<ref>http://www.oxforddnb.com/search/quick/?quicksearch=quicksearch&docPos=1&searchTarget=fulltext&simpleName=St+John's+College,+Cambridge&imageField.x=13&imageField.y=4&imageField=Go {{dead link|date=March 2015}}</ref>

'''Prime Ministers''': [[Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham]] (briefly admitted),<ref>[[George Malcolm Thomson (1899–1996)|Thomson, George Malcolm]]. ''The prime ministers, from Robert Walpole to Margaret Thatcher''. Morrow, 1981 p. 34.</ref> Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1765–66 and 1782, [[F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich]], Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1827–28, [[George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen]], Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1852–55, [[Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston]], Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1855–58 & 1859–65, [[Alfred Domett]], Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1862–63, [[Francis Bell (New Zealand politician)|Sir Francis Bell]], Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1925, [[Manmohan Singh]], Prime Minister of India, 2004–14.

'''Nobel Prize winners''':

*[[Paul Dirac]], Nobel Prize in Physics 1933, "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory".
* [[Edward Victor Appleton|Edward Appleton]], Nobel Prize in Physics 1947, "for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called [[Appleton Layer]]".
*[[John Cockcroft]], Nobel Prize in Physics 1951, "for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles".
* [[Max Born]], Nobel Prize in Physics 1954, "for fundamental research in Quantum Mechanics, especially in the statistical interpretation of the wavefunction".
*[[Frederick Sanger]], Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1958, "for his work on the [[Protein structure|structure of proteins]], especially that of [[insulin]]".
* [[Maurice Wilkins]], Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1973, "for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so-called sandwich compounds".
* [[Nevill Francis Mott]], Nobel Prize in Physics 1977, "for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems"
* [[Abdus Salam]], Nobel Prize in Physics 1979, "for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current".
* [[Allan Cormack]], Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1979, "for the development of [[CT scan|computer-assisted tomography]]"
*[[Frederick Sanger]], Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980, "for their contributions concerning the determination of base [[DNA sequencing|sequences in nucleic acids]]".
*[[Eric Maskin]], Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007, "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory".<ref name="joh.cam.ac.uk" />
* [[Roger Penrose]], Nobel Prize in Physics 2020, "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity".

'''Copley Medallists''': John Frederick William Herschel (1821), John Frederick William Herschel (1847), John Couch Adams (1848), James Joseph Sylvester (1880), George Howard Darwin (1911), Joseph Larmor (1921), Charles Algernon Parsons (1928), Arthur Schuster (1931), Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1952), Harold Jeffreys (1960), Nevill Francis Mott (1972), William Valance Douglas Hodge (1974), Frederick Sanger (1977), Rudolf Ernst Peierls (1986), Abdus Salam (1990), Roger Penrose (2008), David Roxbee Cox (2010)

<gallery class="center" caption="Notable Johnians">
File:Wilberforce john rising.jpg|[[William Wilberforce]]
File:Dirac 3.jpg|[[Paul Dirac]]
File:IBSA-leaders Manmohan Singh.jpg|[[Manmohan Singh]]
File:William Wordsworth by Sir William Boxall.jpg|[[William Wordsworth]]
File:William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley from NPG (2).jpg|[[Lord Burghley]]
File:John Dee.jpeg|[[John Dee]]
File:Lord Palmerston 1855.jpg|[[Lord Palmerston]]
File:Benjamin Jonson by Abraham van Blyenberch.jpg|[[Ben Jonson]]<ref>{{cite magazine |last= Mullinger|first= James Bass|date= 1904 |title= Was Ben Jonson Ever a Member of Our College? |magazine= The Eagle|publisher= St John's College, Cambridge}}</ref><ref name="Linehan 2011 129">{{cite book |last= Linehan|first= Peter|date= 2011|title= St John's College, Cambridge: A History|publisher= Boydell Press|page= 129|isbn= 9781843836087}}</ref>
File:Abdus Salam 1987.jpg|[[Abdus Salam]]
File:Maurice Wilkins nobel.jpg|[[Maurice Wilkins]]
File:Derek Jacobi 2013.jpg|[[Derek Jacobi]]
File:Max Born.jpg|[[Max Born]]
File:Frederick Sanger.jpg|[[Frederick Sanger]]
File:Julia Margaret Cameron - John Herschel (Metropolitan Museum of Art copy, restored) levels.jpg|[[John Herschel]]
File:Roger Penrose at Festival della Scienza Oct 29 2011.jpg|[[Roger Penrose]]
File:Douglas adams portrait (cropped 2).jpg|[[Douglas Adams]]
File:Alfred Marshall.jpg|[[Alfred Marshall]]
File:Thomas Hobbes (portrait).jpg|[[Thomas Hobbes]]<ref name="Linehan 2011 129"/>
File:Jennifer Egan 2017 (cropped).jpg|[[Jennifer Egan]]
</gallery>

===St John's and the abolition of the British slave trade===
[[File:The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840 by Benjamin Robert Haydon.jpg|thumb|St John's alumnus [[Thomas Clarkson]] addresses delegates at the 1840 convention of the [[British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society]]]]

Several of St John's graduates were involved in the efforts to abolish the British Slave Trade that culminated in the [[Slave Trade Act 1807]]. In particular, [[Thomas Clarkson]], [[William Wilberforce]], [[Thomas Gisborne]] and [[Thomas Babington]] were active in the [[Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade]] and other abolitionist efforts.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/chapel_and_choir/bicentenary_2007/ |title=St John's College and the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade |website=www.joh.cam.ac.uk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927004718/http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/chapel_and_choir/bicentenary_2007/ |archive-date=27 September 2011}}</ref>

As part of the commemoration of the bicentenary of the 1807 Act, and as a representative of one of the [[Ivy League]] universities offering an American historical perspective on the [[Triangular Trade]], President [[Ruth Simmons|Ruth J. Simmons]] of [[Brown University]] (herself a descendant of American slaves) gave a public lecture at St John's College entitled "Hidden in Plain Sight: Slavery and Justice in Rhode Island" on 16 February 2007. St John's College hosted some of the events relating to the commemoration,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/press/dpp/2007021501 |title=Cambridge marks 200th anniversary of slavery's abolition
 |website=www.admin.cam.ac.uk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606210533/http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/press/dpp/2007021501 |archive-date=6 June 2011}}</ref> including an academic conference and a Gospel Mass in the College Chapel with the London Adventist Chorale.