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Cambridge is a university city in eastern England, United Kingdom. Its university dates from about 1209. In the Reformation era Thomas Cranmer studied and held a fellowship at Jesus College, and the Strasbourg reformer Martin Bucer spent his last years in Cambridge, dying there in 1551. From Isaac Newton's time onward the university was strong in mathematics and physics, a tradition continued at the Cavendish Laboratory, opened in 1874 with James Clerk Maxwell as its first professor. Later, the Cairo Genizah fragments that Solomon Schechter brought from Egypt became the Taylor-Schechter collection at the University Library, Muhammad Iqbal took a degree at Trinity College in 1906, and C. S. Lewis held a chair at Magdalene College from 1954.

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