Overview
• Kings is a founding college and member institution of the federal University of London.
• King’s was established in 1829 by King George IV and Arthur Wellesley.
• King’s has five campuses.
• It is the largest European centre for graduate and post-graduate medical teaching and biomedical research, by number of students, It is a member of academic organisations including the Association of Commonwealth Universities, European University Association, and the Russell Group.
• The world’s first nursing school, the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery is here.
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It has the fourth largest endowment of any university in the United Kingdom and the largest of any in London.
• It is the 12th largest university in the United Kingdom by total enrolment.
• King’s alumni and staff include 12 Nobel laureates; contributors to the discovery of DNA structure, Hepatitis C and the Higgs boson; pioneers of in-vitro fertilisation, stem cell/mammal cloning and the modern hospice movement.
• King’s enjoys royal patronage by virtue of its foundation.
• The current patron is Queen Elizabeth II.
• King’s was ranked as the 5th best university in the UK for the quality of graduates according to recruiters from the UK’s major companies.
• In a survey by The New York Times assessing the most valued graduates by business leaders, King’s College London graduates ranked 22nd in the world and 5th in the UK.
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Nobel laureates -Peter Higgs (Physics); Sir Michael Houghton (Medicine); Michael Levitt (Chemistry); Max Theiler (Medicine) and Sir Frederick Hopkins (Medicine)
• Sir Andrew Pollard-Chief Investigator on the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine
• Raymond Gosling-who took Photograph 51 which was critical evidence in identifying the structure of DNA
• Patrick Steptoe- pioneer of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF)
• Qui-Lim Choo-Co-discoverer of Hepatitis C and of the Hepatitis D genome
• Notable King’s alumni in poetry and literature include the poet John Keats; the dramatist Sir W. S. Gilbert, and the writers Thomas Hardy, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Virginia Woolf, W. Somerset Maugham, Khushwant Singh
• Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, Desmond Tutu
• King’s is also the alma mater of the founder of Bentley Motors, Walter Bentley
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