Its alumni's achievements included designing St Pauls Cathedral, laying groundwork for
classical mechanics, discovering law of gravity and three laws of motion, coining word «cell» for basic unit of life, Hooke's law of elasticity, Boyle's law, inventing drinking chocolate, creating basis of Natural History Museum's collection, introducing numerous plant species to the Western World,
helping popularise evolutionary theory, devising antiseptic surgery, pioneering nuclear physics.