At which Cambridge college was Stephen Hawking a fellow?

Stephen Hawking was a fellow of Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge.

Hawking arrived at Cambridge in 1962 as a postgraduate student after studying physics at University College, Oxford. After completing his doctorate, he became a research fellow at Gonville and Caius College in 1965. He remained associated with the college for the rest of his working life.

In 1969, Hawking was elected to an official fellowship for distinction in science. The college became his academic home while he developed influential work on black holes, cosmology, and the relationship between general relativity and quantum theory. It also supported adaptations that helped him continue his research as motor neurone disease increasingly affected his mobility.

Hawking later became Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, a prestigious chair once held by Isaac Newton. That university-wide professorship can cause confusion: it was not a separate college fellowship. His fellowship was at Gonville and Caius, commonly pronounced “Caius” as “Keys.” The college later named a building in his honour.