What is Peterhouse, Cambridge?
[[File:Cambridge Peterhouse OldCourt.JPG|thumb|right|300px|The first court of Peterhouse]] '''Peterhouse''' is one of the colleges of the [[University of Cambridge]], [[England]]. It was created in 1284 and is the oldest college. It is also one of the smallest ones, with less than 400 total students. In 1280, Hugo de Balsham, the person who created the college, was first allowed to keep some students following the same rules of [[Merton College, Oxford]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66643|title='The colleges and halls: Peterhouse', A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 3: The City and University of Cambridge (1959), pp. 334-340|accessdate=2008-07-01|archive-date=2014-10-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141009143243/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66643|url-status=dead}}</ref> At first, they stayed where [[St John's College, Cambridge|St John's College]] is now. Four years later, they bought some land near the Church of St Peter in Trumpington Street, where Peterhouse is still found now. Over the years, Peterhouse has been centre of many important events. It was here that many discussions about [[religion]] and the [[Protestant Reformation]] took place. Peterhouse was also the second building in England to get [[electricity]], after the [[Palace of Westminster]].<ref>{{cite web|title=About the College|url=http://www.pet.cam.ac.uk/welcome-peterhouse/about-college|work=Peterhouse Website|accessdate=24 January 2011|archive-date=25 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100125020618/http://www.pet.cam.ac.uk/welcome-peterhouse/about-college|url-status=dead}}</ref> Some very important people have studied here. Five of them have won [[Nobel Prize]]s: *[[Max Perutz]] and [[John Kendrew]] - [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] (1962) for finding out the first atomic structures of [[protein]]s using X-ray [[crystallography]]. *[[Aaron Klug|Sir Aaron Klug]] - [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] (1982)