King's College London was founded in 1829 by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington, then serving as prime minister, as one of the two founding colleges of the University of London. Its Medical Research Council Biophysics Unit, formed after the Second World War, was the site of Maurice Wilkins's and Rosalind Franklin's X-ray diffraction studies of DNA in the early 1950s, work that fed directly into the discovery of the double helix.
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Karl Popper (Wikipedia)
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Infobox institutions: Canterbury University College London School of Economics King's College London Darwin College, Cambridge
Peter Higgs (Wikipedia)
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Infobox workplaces: University of Edinburgh Imperial College London University College London King's College London
Charles Lyell (Wikipedia)
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Infobox workplaces: King's College London
Hermann Bondi (Wikipedia)
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Infobox workplaces: King's College London; University of Cambridge
Michael Fisher (Wikipedia)
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Infobox workplaces: King's College London; Cornell University; University of Maryland, College Park
Owen Richardson (Wikipedia)
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Infobox workplaces: Princeton University King's College London
James Clerk Maxwell (Wikipedia)
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Marischal College, University of Aberdeen, King's College, London, University of Cambridge
Roger Penrose (Wikipedia)
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Cornell University Bedford College, London, Bedford College, London Princeton University Rice University Syracuse University King's College, London Birkbeck, University of London Wadham College, Oxford Polish Academy of Sciences
King's College London (Wikipedia)
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is a public research university in London, England
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