Editing King's College London (section)

=== Notable academics and staff ===
{{category see also|Academics of King's College London}}

Notable academics at King's have included [[Charles Lyell|Sir Charles Lyell]] (geologist and author of ''[[Principles of Geology]]''),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/charles-lyell|title=Charles Lyell|access-date=2 January 2025|publisher=King's College London}}</ref> [[Charles Wheatstone|Sir Charles Wheatstone]] (best known for the [[Wheatstone bridge]]),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kingscollections.org/exhibitions/archives/beginning/staff-students/wheatstone|title= Sir Charles Wheatstone|publisher=King's College London Archives|access-date=2 January 2025}}</ref>  [[James Clerk Maxwell]] (mathematical physicist known for [[Maxwell's equations]] describing the motion of light as an electro-magnetic wave),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/james-clerk-maxwell|title= James Clerk Maxwell |access-date=2 January 2025|publisher=King's College London}}</ref> [[Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister|Joseph Lister]] (pioneer of antiseptic surgery),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/joseph-lister|title=Joseph Lister|publisher=King's College London|date=16 March 2017 |access-date=2 January 2025}}</ref> [[Charles Barkla]] (winner of the 1917 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]]),<ref name="nobelpr" /> [[Owen Willans Richardson|Sir Owen Richardson]] (winner of the 1928 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]]),<ref name="nobelpr" /> [[Edward Victor Appleton|Sir Edward Appleton]] (winner of the 1947 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]]),<ref name="nobelpr" /> [[Maurice Wilkins]] and [[Rosalind Franklin]] (both known for their contributions to the discovery of the structure of DNA, for which Wilkins won the 1962 [[Nobel Prize for Medicine]] after Franklin's death),<ref name="nobelpr" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/rosalind-franklin|title=Rosalind Franklin|access-date=2 January 2025|publisher=King's College London|date=20 July 2020 }}</ref> [[Mario Vargas Llosa]] (writer and winner of the 2010 [[Nobel Prize for Literature]]),<ref name="nobelpr" /> and [[Roger Penrose|Sir Roger Penrose]] (winner of the 2020 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]]).<ref name="nobelpr" />

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|[[James Clerk Maxwell]]
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|[[Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister|Joseph Lister]]
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|[[Rosalind Franklin]]
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|[[Maurice Wilkins]]
|File:Roger Penrose at Festival della Scienza Oct 29 2011.jpg
|[[Roger Penrose]]
|File:Vargas Llosa Madrid 2012.jpg
|[[Mario Vargas Llosa]]
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