Centre for Mathematical Sciences Funds raised as at July 1998 Charles N. Corfield 2,500,000 Märit and Hans Rausing Foundation 2,500,000 Garfield Weston Foundation 2,500,000 Wolfson Foundation (grant for the Central Teaching Complex) 1,000,000 Cambridge University Press 3,000,000 Cambridge Colleges 1,555,000 Alumni, others and interest (including gross pledges to the telephone fundraising campaign) 2,000,000 University provision for infrastructure costs 5,000,000 Total ---------- 20,005,000 Charles N. Corfield ------------------- Charles "Nick" Corfield graduated from Cambridge with a mathematics degree in 1982. He moved to California where, in 1985, he founded Frame Technology Corporation. The company's flagship product, FrameMaker, became the market leader in technical publishing. He sold Frame to Adobe Systems in 1995. The Märit and Hans Rausing Charitable Foundation ------------------------------------------------ The Foundation's £2.5 million gift is for the Märit and Hans Rausing Building. This will provide accommodation for Theoretical Physics and Geometry, including Professor Stephen Hawking and his research group. Swedish-born Hans Rausing was Managing Director and later Chairman of the Tetra Laval Group for nearly 37 years. The Garfield Weston Foundation ------------------------------ In 1989 The Garfield Weston Foundation became the first major benefactor to the University's newly launched development campaign when it gave £1 million. Canadian-born Garfield Weston was educated at the universities of Oxford and Harvard. He has been the Chairman of Associated British Foods plc since 1967. The Wolfson Foundation Lord Wolfson and The Wolfson Foundation have been major benefactors to the University of Cambridge and to many Cambridge Colleges for forty years. Their grant is for the Central Core Teaching Area.