Famous King's People
From the KCL website:
"The staff and alumni of King's and its constituent institutions made major contributions to 19th-century science, medicine and public life in general. In the 20th century eight people from these institutions were awarded the Nobel Prize.
John Keats, poet and Guy's medical student
Sir Charles Lyell, founder of modern geology
John Frederic Daniell, inventor of the constant-cell battery
Sir Charles Wheatstone, pioneer of wireless telegraphy
Dr Thomas Hodgkin, identifier of Hodgkin's disease
F D Maurice, founder of Christian Socialism and of the Working Men's College, pioneer of higher education for women
James Clerk Maxwell, Einstein's predecessor in physics
Florence Nightingale, founder of professional nursing
Lord Lister, father of antiseptic surgery
Maurice Wilkins (Nobel Laureate) and Rosalind Franklin, discoverers of the structure of DNA
Sir James Black OM (Nobel Laureate), inventor of beta blockers and anti-ulcer drugs
The Most Reverend Desmond Tutu, former Archbishop of Cape Town, King's alumnus and Nobel Laureate"
Of these, I think Lister and Franklin are my favorite. Although never underestimate the usefulness of the line, "Saturn is fallen, am I too to fall?" when drunk. I don't know why, I find it applicable in many situations....
"The staff and alumni of King's and its constituent institutions made major contributions to 19th-century science, medicine and public life in general. In the 20th century eight people from these institutions were awarded the Nobel Prize.
John Keats, poet and Guy's medical student
Sir Charles Lyell, founder of modern geology
John Frederic Daniell, inventor of the constant-cell battery
Sir Charles Wheatstone, pioneer of wireless telegraphy
Dr Thomas Hodgkin, identifier of Hodgkin's disease
F D Maurice, founder of Christian Socialism and of the Working Men's College, pioneer of higher education for women
James Clerk Maxwell, Einstein's predecessor in physics
Florence Nightingale, founder of professional nursing
Lord Lister, father of antiseptic surgery
Maurice Wilkins (Nobel Laureate) and Rosalind Franklin, discoverers of the structure of DNA
Sir James Black OM (Nobel Laureate), inventor of beta blockers and anti-ulcer drugs
The Most Reverend Desmond Tutu, former Archbishop of Cape Town, King's alumnus and Nobel Laureate"
Of these, I think Lister and Franklin are my favorite. Although never underestimate the usefulness of the line, "Saturn is fallen, am I too to fall?" when drunk. I don't know why, I find it applicable in many situations....
