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Gower Street London: University Never Stood Still

Universities have become very conscious of the student experience. But architecture also reveals an idea. The old message could sometimes feel like: here is the institution; find your place within it. The newer buildings increasingly say: come in, sit down, stay for a while. That matters particularly in London, because its universities were never populated […]
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Rosalind Franklin, A Future of Discovery at Guy’s

Today, July 25, marks the birth anniversary of Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920–1958), the brilliant British chemist whose X‑ray crystallography images led directly to the model of DNA’s double helix. Whilst Franklin began her scientific journey with a PhD in physical chemistry from Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1945, it was at King’s College London where her X‑ray […]
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