John Ray, 17th-century botanist who coined words petal and pollen, was a tutor at Cambridge when he created his first garden

He coined the terms petal and pollen, helped to lay the foundations of modern biology and is widely regarded as the greatest English naturalist of the 17th century.

But it was while he was a young college tutor at Cambridge in the 1650s that the botanist John Ray – also known as “the father of natural history” – created his first known garden and began to systematically study plants for the first time.

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© Photograph: Trinity College Cambridge.

© Photograph: Trinity College Cambridge.

© Photograph: Trinity College Cambridge.

El príncipe Jorge, de 12 años, comenzará sus estudios en Eton College el próximo mes de septiembre, según ha anunciado este martes. “El Palacio de Kensington puede confirmar que el príncipe George asistirá a Eton a partir de este septiembre, dijo la escueta declaración de la residencia oficial de los príncipes de Gales. De este modo, el primogénito de Guillermo de Inglaterra y Kate Middleton seguirá los pasos de su padre, que también asistió a esta escuela privada solo para chicos ubicada en el condado de Berkshire, donde la matrícula ronda actualmente las 63.000 libras anuales (unos 72.000 euros). Además, los costos para el nieto del rey Carlos III incluirán el IVA que el Gobierno británico agrega a las tarifas de las escuelas privadas, según indica la BBC.

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A team at the University of Cambridge say this is the first time that a vaccine whose active component was 'designed entirely by computer simulations has been tested in humans.'

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