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Cavendish Laboratory
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physics laboratory at the University of Cambridge
Key facts
- Affiliation
- University of Cambridge
- Head of department
- Mete Atature
- Cavendish professor of physics
- Nicola Marzari
- Website
- www .phy .cam .ac .uk
via Wikipedia infobox
Described at
Cavendish Laboratory Department of Physics
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Encyclopedic overview
The Cavendish Laboratory is the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge, and is part of the School of Physical Sciences. The laboratory was opened in 1874 on the New Museums Site as a laboratory for experimental physics and is named after the British chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish. The laboratory has had a huge influence on research in the disciplines of physics and biology.
The laboratory moved to a new site in West Cambridge in 1974. In 2025 it moved again to the Ray Dolby Centre, still in West Cambridge.
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