Clare Hall, Cambridge
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Clare Hall is a constituent college
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 of the University of Cambridge
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, England
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. It is a college for advanced study, admitting only postgraduate students.

Informality is a defining value at Clare Hall and this contributes to its unique character. Unlike other colleges in the university, Clare Hall does not have a high table
High Table
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 at meals or a senior common room, and it is a single society for all social functions and in the use of the various college common rooms and other facilities. This encourages interaction between graduate students, distinguished visiting fellows and other senior members, aided also by the wide variety of national backgrounds and research interests of the members.

The interaction between members of Clare Hall is encouraged also by college seminars, lunchtime discussions and formal lecture series. The latter includes the annual series of lectures relating to human values, given by a distinguished international scholar and sponsored by the Tanner Foundation. They also include the annual Ashby lecture, given by a visiting fellow, and the more frequent ASH seminar (arts, social sciences and history) that were initiated by some of the visiting life members. Other events include art exhibitions, films and small concerts which supplement the wealth of music available in the university. The college retains strong links with scholars, universities and political and industry leaders in Asia, the Pacific, Africa, Europe and America. This provides a culturally rich and professionally diverse environment for academic research. Distinguished academics from universities all over the world intending to visit Cambridge during a period of study leave may apply to the college, and the Fellowship Committee recommends successful candidates for election for up to one year.

Other facilities in the college grounds include a sports complex with a multi-gym and swimming pool and an adjacent tennis court. It also boasts the finest dining room, food & wine and Formal Hall as rated by Varsity
Varsity (Cambridge)
Varsity is the oldest of Cambridge University's main student newspapers. It has been published continuously since 1947, and is one of only three fully independent student newspapers in the UK. It appears every Friday around Cambridge...

, a Cambridge University student run magazine. The university athletics track is a short run from the main college buildings.

It is one of the smallest colleges with 145 graduate students but around 125 Fellows, making it the highest Fellow to Student ratio at Cambridge University
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

.

Foundation and history

Clare Hall was founded by Clare College
Clare College, Cambridge
Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.The college was founded in 1326, making it the second-oldest surviving college of the University after Peterhouse. Clare is famous for its chapel choir and for its gardens on "the Backs"...

 (which had previously been known as "Clare Hall" from 1338–1856) as a centre for advanced study, but was also intended to become a social group of men and women with their families that would include graduate students studying for higher degrees in the university, research fellows working at post-doctoral level, permanent fellows holding faculty or research posts in the university, and visiting fellows on leave from universities around the world.

After Clare College decided to establish this new centre in January 1964, the initial planning was carried through by a small group of fellows of the college chaired by the Master, Sir Eric Ashby
Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby
Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby FRS was a British botanist and educator.Born in Leytonstone in Essex, he was educated at the City of London School and the Royal College of Science, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science. He was then demonstrator at the Imperial College from 1926 to 1929...

 (later to become Lord Ashby of Brandon). It was soon agreed that the new centre would be called Clare Hall, the ancient name by which the college itself had been known for more than five hundred years until the mid-19th century.

The Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Bologna is so far the only institution abroad explicitly modelled upon Clare Hall.

New buildings

The architect Ralph Erskine
Ralph Erskine (architect)
Ralph Erskine, CBRE, RFS, ARIBA was an architect and planner who lived and worked in Sweden for most of his life.-Upbringing and influences :...

 was appointed to design the buildings for Clare Hall, which were to include common rooms, offices and dining facilities, a house for the President, and twenty apartments for visiting fellows. A neighbouring house, Elmside in Grange Road
Grange Road, Cambridge
Grange Road is a long straight road in western Cambridge, England. It stretches north–south, meeting Madingley Road at a T-junction to the north and Barton Road to the south....

, provided rooms for the relatively small number of graduate students.

Sir Eric Ashby, then Master of Clare College and Vice-Chancellor of the University, formally opened Clare Hall in September 1969. Brian Pippard, the first President of Clare Hall, had already moved into the President’s house with his family, twelve research students were living on the college site in Elmside and a number of visiting fellows with their families were living in the newly built college apartments. Among the early visiting fellows was Ivar Giaever
Ivar Giaever
Ivar Giaever is a physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson "for their discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in solids". Giaever's share of the prize was specifically for his "experimental discoveries regarding tunnelling phenomena in ......

, who was awarded a Nobel Prize for Physics in 1973. Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky , was a Russian poet and essayist.In 1964, 23-year-old Brodsky was arrested and charged with the crime of "social parasitism" He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 and settled in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters...

, a visiting fellow and poet
Poet
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 in residence at Clare Hall in 1977, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987.

Growth and development

In 1978 a second neighbouring house, now called Leslie Barnett
Leslie Barnett
Leslie Barnett was a British biologist born in London, together with Francis Crick, Sydney Brenner and Richard J. Watts-Tobin genetically demonstrated the triplet nature of the code of protein translation through the Crick, Brenner, Barnett, Watts-Tobin et al...

 House, was obtained for graduate student accommodation. This purchase also allowed the Michael Stoker and Brian Pippard Buildings to be built in the college grounds, providing further student rooms. The Anthony Low Building in the garden of Elmside was completed in 2000, providing further common rooms and the Garden Bar for the graduates on the main college site.

In the summer of 1996, the college purchased a substantial property, formerly the Cambridge family home of Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild
Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild
Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, GBE, GM, FRS was a biologist by training, a cricketer and a member of the prominent Rothschild family...

, which is about five minutes' walk from the college at the end of Herschel Road. It was renamed Clare Hall West Court and, after conversion and some major building works, now provides public rooms, studies, apartments, study bedrooms, a fitness centre, a swimming pool
Swimming pool
A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, or simply a pool, is a container filled with water intended for swimming or water-based recreation. There are many standard sizes; the largest is the Olympic-size swimming pool...

, and a tennis
Tennis
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 court.

Presidents

The President’s term of office is fixed at seven years. In 1973, Robert Honeycombe
Robert Honeycombe
Sir Robert William Kerr Honeycombe, FREng, FRS, was a former Goldsmiths' Professor of Metallurgy and Professor Emeritus of the University of Cambridge. He was an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge....

 (later Sir Robert), Goldsmiths Professor and Head of the Department of Metallurgy, succeeded Brian Pippard
Brian Pippard
Sir Alfred Brian Pippard, ScD, FRS , was a British physicist. He was Cavendish Professor of Physics from 1971 until 1984 and an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, of which he was the first President...

 as President of Clare Hall. Subsequent Presidents were Sir Michael Stoker
Michael Stoker
Sir Michael George Parke Stoker CBE FRS MD FRCP is a British physician.He studied medicine at Clare College, Cambridge and St Thomas' Hospital in London, gaining his MD in 1947, after serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps during WWII...

 (1980-87), Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society and a former fellow and medical tutor at Clare College, who had taken early retirement from his post as Director of the Imperial Cancer Research Laboratories; Anthony Low
Anthony Low
Anthony Low is a historian of modern South Asia, Africa, the British Commonwealth, and, especially, decolonization...

 (1987–94), Professor of Commonwealth History and formerly Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University, who had been a visiting fellow of Clare Hall in 1971; and Professor Dame Gillian Beer
Gillian Beer
Dame Gillian Beer, DBE , King Edward VII Professor of English Literature and President, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, is a British literary critic and academic.-Career:...

 (1994–2001), King Edward VII Professor of English Literature.

Professor Ekhard Salje
Ekhard Salje
Professor Ekhard Karl Hermann Salje, FRS, , is Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology and former Head of the Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University.-Education and career:...

 FRS, Head of the Department of Earth Sciences, was President of Clare Hall from 2001 until 2008 after holding professorships in Germany
Germany
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 and France
France
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. He was succeeded by Sir Martin Harris, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester
University of Manchester
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.

Fellows

The late Lord Ashby was elected as the first honorary fellow of Clare Hall in 1975, on his retirement from the Mastership of Clare College.

Present honorary fellows include two former visiting fellows, Kim Dae-Jung, former President of the Republic of Korea, and Lee Bollinger
Lee Bollinger
Lee Carroll Bollinger is an American lawyer and educator who is currently serving as the 19th president of Columbia University. Formerly the president of the University of Michigan, he is a noted legal scholar of the First Amendment and freedom of speech...

, who later became President of the Universities of Michigan
University of Michigan
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 and Columbia
Columbia University
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. They also include the retired Presidents of the College, together with Ralph Erskine, architect of the early buildings, and Richard Eden
Richard Eden
Richard Eden was an alchemist and translator. His translations of the geographic works of other writers helped foster a spirit of overseas exploration in Tudor England.-Early life:...

, one of the founding fellows.

Clare Hall has a strong tradition in theoretical physics. Brian Pippard
Brian Pippard
Sir Alfred Brian Pippard, ScD, FRS , was a British physicist. He was Cavendish Professor of Physics from 1971 until 1984 and an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, of which he was the first President...

 was the first president of Clare Hall. Notable current fellows include Michael Green
Michael Green (physicist)
Michael Boris Green FRS is a British physicist and one of the pioneers of string theory. Currently a professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and a Fellow in Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge in England, he succeeded Stephen Hawking on 1 November 2009...

, the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, and John D. Barrow
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.
Past fellows include Stephen Adler of the Institute for Advanced Study
Institute for Advanced Study
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, Michael R. Douglas
Michael R. Douglas
Michael R. Douglas is an American theoretical physicist and professor currently at Stony Brook University.Michael R. Douglas was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the son of Nancy and Ronald G. Douglas, a mathematician specializing in operator algebras. He received his bachelor's degree in physics...

 of Stony Brook University, J. David Jackson of the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
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, William Paul of Harvard University
Harvard University
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.

Other American academics who were past fellows include Andreas Acrivos
Andreas Acrivos
Andreas Acrivos is the Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Engineering, Emeritus at the City College of New York. He is also the Director of the Benjamin Levich Institute for Physicochemical Hydrodynamics.-Education and career:...

 (fluid dynamics) of Stanford
Stanford University
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, Leila Ahmed
Leila Ahmed
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 (divinity) of Harvard
Harvard University
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, David Epel
David Epel
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 (marine biology) of Stanford
Stanford University
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, Elizabeth Gavis (molecular biology) of Princeton
Princeton University
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, Robert Glaeser (biochemistry and molecular biology) of Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
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, Jeanne C. Marsh (social service administration) of Chicago
University of Chicago
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 Christine Shoemaker (civil and environmental engineering) of Cornell
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, Robert Socolow (mechanical and aerospace engineering) of Princeton
Princeton University
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.

Roy Martin Haines
Roy Martin Haines
Roy Martin Haines is a British historian.Haines is the son of Evan George Martin Haines, who served in the Welsh Guards during World War I and died in 1929 from an illness attributable to his military service...

, sometime Professor of Medieval History in Dalhousie University
Dalhousie University
Dalhousie University is a public research university located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The university comprises eleven faculties including Schulich School of Law and Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine. It also includes the faculties of architecture, planning and engineering located at...

, was a Visiting Fellow in 1987/8 and in 1990 was appointed a life member of the college.

See also

  • :Category:Fellows of Clare Hall, Cambridge
  • :Category:Honorary Fellows of Clare Hall, Cambridge
  • :Category:Alumni of Clare Hall, Cambridge
  • Clare Hall Boat Club
    Clare Hall Boat Club
    Clare Hall Boat Club is the boat club for members of Clare Hall, Cambridge, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.-External links:*...


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