King's College London (King's College London , abbreviation: King's College London KCL), also translated as King's College London , is one of the founding colleges of the University of London, in 1829 by King George IV of England and Prime Minister Weiling Founded in the elite area of London's Thames, Duke Don is a well-known college in the British Golden Triangle School and the Russell University Group, and has trained many Nobel Prize winners. In 2005, " Guardian " praised King's College London, London School of Economics, Imperial College London and University College London as the four major colleges of the University of London, and its academic reputation in the UK is comparable to that of Oxford and Cambridge. King's College London is a research-oriented university and the fourth oldest school in the UK. In addition, King's College London is also a member of the British Golden Triangle University and Russell University Group, enjoying a global academic reputation. The alumni and faculty of the college have 12 Nobel Prize winners, including literary giant Thomas Hardy, poet John Keats , and theoretical physics giant Peter Higgs , all of whom are graduates of King's College .
King's College was founded in 1829 by King George IV and the Duke of Prime Minister Wellington. In the same year, it was obtained a royal charter. Therefore, it is logically the third oldest university in England (University College London obtained a charter in 1836), but the official He calls himself the fourth university in England. The St. Thomas Hospital, the teaching hospital of King's College, is the largest medical training facility in Europe. Its history can be traced back to 1173, and its medical school was established in 1550. In 1836, King's College became a member of the founding of the Federal University of London, later merged with Queen Elizabeth College and Chelsea College of Science and Technology in 1985, merged with the London Institute of Psychiatry in 1997, and in 1998 with Guy and St. Thomas. The hospital combined with the School of Medicine and Dentistry and Nightingale Nursing and Midwifery Education has made King's College a larger university.
The main campus of King's College is located on Riverbank Street, Westminster, London, and the remaining three campuses are located on the banks of the Thames and also have campuses in Denmark Hill, South London. King's College has 9 academic colleges, which are divided into many departments, centers and research institutes. The college also has the largest graduate medical education and research centers in Europe, including 6 research centers of the Medical Research Council and King's Medical Science Partner Alliance Founding member. King's College currently has approximately 25,000 students and 6,113 staff, with a total revenue of £604 million in 2013/14, of which 172 million are research funds and contracts.
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1829, King George IV of England and the Duke of Prime Minister Wellington founded King's College, King's College, on the banks of the Thames in central London, in response to the Theological debate was held in 1827, and the University of London (later renamed University College London).
Since Oxford and Cambridge University were both religious and social in nature at that time, the students taught were all sons of the upper-class Anglican family, so the University of London was established to enable ordinary civilians to receive education. However, the secular nature of the University of London was rejected by the establishment, and King's College London was established to respond to and reaffirm the educational value of the establishment. King's College is one of the universities established in the 19th century, after the Industrial Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Since the academy was founded by the King and the Church of the Anglican, King's College benefited from the British monarch and the Archbishop of Canterbury in the early days, and was able to obtain the Royal Charter in the same year as the founding of the school. The Royal Charter of King's College was granted by George IV on 14 August 1829, explaining the purpose of establishing the new college: to provide young people with a variety of literary and scientific education, and the teachings and obligations of the Anglican Church will also be The United Kingdom and Ireland United Church indoctrinated.Before the establishment of the school, Buckingham Palace and Regent Park were considered as the site of King's College, but the British Treasury eventually provided land between the riverbank and the Thames, near Somerset, to the college with extremely low rents. Campus]
Riverbank Campus is the earliest campus of Kings College, located in Westminster, on the north bank of the Thames River. The campus is mainly based on humanities, law, social sciences and public policy; physics, engineering and mathematics are also located in the Strand Building. King’s Building on the Riverbank Campus was designed by Sir Robert Smerck in 1831 and is a Grade I Listed building in the UK. The College Chapel located on this campus is a Byzantine Gothic architecture and was redesigned in 1864 by British architect Sir George Gilbert Scott. The Macadam Building, built in 1975, is now the KCLSU building named Sir McAdam, a graduate of King's College and the first president of the National Union of Students.
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In the 2004 RAE research evaluation by the British government, King's College received a full score of 5* or 5 points in 24 disciplines. According to the 2006 Times excellent universities, King's College ranked in the top five in the UK.
King's College ranked 19th in the world and 5th in the UK in 2015/16, [137] ranked 27th in the world in the world, 7th in the UK and 8th in Europe in 2015. . [138] In addition, in 2015, the world's academic ranking was 55th in the world, and the world's academic reputation ranking was 31st in the world.
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King’s College Student Union was established in 1873. It is the oldest student union in London and is also known as the oldest student union in England. The College Student Union provides a variety of activities and services for students, including more than 50 sports, 200 event societies, volunteer service opportunities, two bars and restaurants, King’s Shop and fitness center. The Student Union also operated a nightclub named after alumni and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu from 1992 to 2013.
The first student president of Kings College was Sir Ivison Macadam, who was also the first president of the British University Student Union. The McAdam Building, the Student Union Building on the Riverbank Campus, was later named after it.
Reggie the Lion is the official mascot of the college student union. The college currently has three statues of Reggie. The original version is on display in the Student Union Building, the paper carved version is outside the lobby of the Riverside Campus, and the sterling silver version will be displayed at the graduation ceremony.
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- 1917 Nobel Prize in Physics Charles Bakra ("Discovering the scattering phenomenon of X-rays")
- 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics Irving Richardson ("Discovering the scattering phenomenon of X-rays")
- 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics Irving Richardson ("Discovering the scattering phenomenon of Richardson's Law"" )
- 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Frederick Hopkins ("Discovering Multivitamins")
- 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Charles Scott Shellington ("About Neurological Function
- 1947 Nobel Prize in Physics Edward Appleton (“Ionospheric sphere with an altitude of about 150 miles”)
- 1951 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Max Tyrel (“Identification of yellow fever vaccine ”)
- 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Maurice Wilkins ("Discovering the Double Helix Structure of DNA")
- 1984 Nobel Peace Prize Desmond Tutu
- 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine James S. W. Brack ("Inventing Drugs and Synthesizing Mecymidin")
- 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature Mario Vargas Llosa
- 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics Peter Higgs ("Theory of the generation mechanism of subatomic particle mass")
- 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Michael Levitt ("Created multi-scale model for complex chemical systems")
