Erection date: 1/5/2003
Near this site Rosalind Franklin, Maurice Wilkins, Raymond Gosling, Alexander Stokes and Herbert Wilson performed experiments that led to the discover of the structure of DNA. This work revolutionised our undersanding of the chemistry behind life itself.
May 1 2003
Royal Society of Chemistry National Historic Chemical Landmark
RSC
King's College, London
WC2, Strand, King's College
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
DNA at Kings
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instr...
Crystallographer. Born Chepstow Villas. Worked on DNA X-ray diffraction studi...
Raymond George Gosling was born on 15 July 1926 the son of George Leonard Gos...
Worked on DNA X-ray diffraction studies 1953 at King's College London with Fr...
Molecular biologist. Born New Zealand. Worked on DNA X-ray diffraction studie...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
DNA at Kings
Founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington (then PM). In 1836 Kings...
Formed as a merger of the Chemical Society, the Royal Institute of Chemistry,...
The Queen was busy that day in 1869, opening two bridges, the other being Holborn Viaduct.
{On the plaque to the right of the door:} Orange Street Congregational Church This Church was founded in 1693 by Huguenot refugees who ...
Our photo shows the plaque commemorating the rebuilding of the almshouses. The one commemorating the founding is on another, parallel blo...
Alexis Soyer, 1810 - 1858, chef, author of cookbooks, inventor, lived here. City of Westminster
Pen-name of a novelist about whom little is known for certain other than the fact that he spent time in Mexico where he died. Author of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre', 1927, made into the 1948 ...
Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Germany, Mexico
Born near Barnstaple, Devon. From the picture source website: "7 years 2nd Life Guards, London. Licencee Hare & Hounds South Molton & then ran Clockmaker & Gunsmith shop in East St. ( ...
Born Norwood, Surrey. Art and literary scholar and museum administrator. He was director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge from 1876 to 1884, and then keeper of the department of prints and draw...
The cottage was 'Telegraph Cottage' which Browning described as "resembling a goose pie' but we can find no image. It was named for the ...
There are two stone plaques either side of the entrance, low on the wall, and two, rather classier, plaques in the entrance lobby. Readi...
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