G R AV I T Y F I E L D S F E S T I VA L
Festival Science Outreach is supported
by Trinity College, Cambridge
Professor Valerie Gibson, the most senior woman scientist
at Trinity College and Grantham born, is a community
governor of Newton’s old school (King’s), was only the
second person from Grantham to sign the Trinity Fellows'
‘Big Book’ and her office at CERN in Geneva overlooks the
Rue Newton. The festival is also pleased to welcome Dr
Hugh Hunt and Dr Harry Cliff of Trinity College.
T
he relationship between Sir
Isaac Newton and Trinity College
was pivotal to both, which was
highlighted in Gravity Fields 2012 and
developed further this year.
Newton’s whole academic life - from
1661 to 1696 - was spent at Trinity,
first as an undergraduate and then
as a Fellow from 1667. In that time he
formulated a version of calculus and
the principles of universal gravitation.
of the Royal Society and to
share his ideas with other
philosophers, and his
position brought him in Ѽ)