There are 37 winners of the Physics prize associated with Cambridge, 25 of whom were either undergraduate or graduate students. If you drew a heat map of where they worked, it would centre on the Cavendish Laboratory: originally situated on Free School Lane, it moved to west Cambridge and a third iteration is currently being built, again in west Cambridge. Lord Rayleigh won the first (for Cambridge) in 1904, father and son, William and Lawrence Bragg won in 1915 for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-ray. Lawrence was just 25 and is still the youngest recipient of the physics prize. Brian Josephson won when he was 33 but for work he did when he was a PhD student, aged 22.
Random factette: Max Born who came to work at the Cavendish as a postdoc won the physics prize in 1954. His granddaughter, Olivia Newton John, was born in Cambridge and who recorded, with John Travolta, one of the highest ever selling singles, “You’re the One That I Want.”