Ascension Parish Burial Ground
Leafy Victorian parish cemetery where Nobel laureates, philosophers and Darwin family members rest.
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This guide to the Ascension Parish Burial Ground in Cambridge follows the biochemist Frederick Gowland Hopkins into his laboratory in the years before nineteen twelve, where two groups of rats were fed diets that looked identical on paper. It touches his climb from evening classes in London to a Nobel Prize, and the argument historians still have about that credit. Best heard walking slowly among the stones off Huntingdon Road.
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