What building did King's College London open in 2000 to honor Franklin and Wilkins?

What building did King’s College London open in 2000 to honor Franklin and Wilkins? The Franklin-Wilkins Building.

King’s College London opened the Franklin-Wilkins Building at its Waterloo campus in 2000. It was named for Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, whose research at King’s made major contributions to understanding DNA’s structure through X-ray diffraction.

The building was created through the redevelopment of Cornwall House and became one of London’s largest university buildings. Its opening linked a modern academic facility with King’s historical role in DNA research, including the work of Franklin, Wilkins, Raymond Gosling and other colleagues.

The name commemorates the scientists’ work at the college, not a building where the double helix was “discovered” in a single experiment. Franklin worked with DNA fibres and produced crucial diffraction evidence, while Wilkins was also involved in the King’s DNA research programme. Their contributions were later recognized in the broader story of the 1953 double-helix model.

The building remains part of King’s Waterloo campus and includes teaching, study and library facilities. It is sometimes confused with the James Clerk Maxwell Building, another Waterloo campus building, or with laboratories associated with John Randall’s research group.