Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII from the merger of two existing colleges, Michaelhouse and King's Hall. It is one of the largest Cambridge colleges and has the largest financial endowment of any college at Oxford or Cambridge. Members of the college have been awarded 34 Nobel Prizes, four Fields Medals, one Turing Award and one Abel Prize, and its alumni include Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell, Srinivasa Ramanujan and the mathematician Charles Babbage. Its Great Court is said to be the largest enclosed courtyard in Europe, and its Trinity Mathematical Society is the oldest mathematical university society in the United Kingdom.
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