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St John's College Cambridge was formally created on the 9th of April 1511 through a charter. The college was established by Bishop John Fisher after Lady Margaret Beaufort died in 1509 without mentioning it in her will.
New Court at St John's College Cambridge was constructed between 1826 and 1831 to accommodate rapidly increasing student numbers. Thomas Rickman and Henry Hutchinson designed this neo-Gothic structure which is nicknamed 'The Wedding Cake' due to its tiered design.
Members of St John's College Cambridge include winners of twelve Nobel Prizes such as Paul Dirac who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933. Frederick Sanger received two Nobel Prizes in Chemistry in 1958 and 1980 while Roger Penrose won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2020 for discovering that black hole formation is a robust prediction of general relativity.
St John's College Cambridge first admitted women in October 1981 when K.M. Wheeler joined the fellowship along with nine female graduate students. First women undergraduates arrived a year later following further increases in student numbers after the Second World War.
The Choir of St John's College Cambridge has sung daily services in the Chapel since the 1670s but announced in October 2021 that girls and women would join the choir. This made it the first to combine male and female voices in both adults and children despite a mixed-voice adult choir named St John's Voices being disbanded by June 2024.