Laboratory of Oxford University
The Clarendon Laboratory ? the main
Townsend Building
front facade
The Clarendon Laboratory
Lindemann Building
front facade (2008).
Note: This view is now blocked by the 2018 Beecroft Building
The Clarendon Laboratory ? the Lindemann Building with the construction site of the new
Beecroft Building
(completed 2018) in front.
The
Clarendon Laboratory
, located on
Parks Road
within the
Science Area
in
Oxford
, England (not to be confused with the
Clarendon Building
, also in Oxford), is part of the
Department of Physics
at
Oxford University
. It houses the
atomic and laser physics
,
condensed matter physics
, and
biophysics
groups within the Department, although four other Oxford Physics groups are not based in the Clarendon Lab. The Oxford
Centre for Quantum Computation
is also housed in the laboratory.
Buildings
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The Clarendon Laboratory consists of two adjoining buildings, the
Lindemann Building
(named after
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
) and the
Grade II listed
Townsend Building
(named after Sir
John Sealy Townsend
).
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The
Beecroft Building
(named after
Adrian Beecroft
) is now immediately in front of the Lindemann Building, completed in 2018 and designed by
Hawkins\Brown
, with a budget of approximately £40 million.
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History
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Blue plaque
erected by the
Royal Society of Chemistry
on the Townsend Building of the Clarendon Laboratory in 2007, commemorating
Henry Moseley
's early 20th-century research work on X-rays emitted by elements.
The Clarendon is named after
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
, whose trustees paid £10,000 for the building of the original laboratory, completed in 1872, making it the oldest purpose-built physics laboratory in England. The building was designed by
Robert Bellamy Clifton
.
The brothers
Fritz
and
Heinz London
developed the
London equations
when working there in 1935.
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In 2007, the laboratory was granted chemical landmark status.
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The award was bestowed due to the work carried out by
Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley
in 1914.
Current use
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The original building, substantially enlarged, is now part of the Oxford
Earth Sciences
Department.
The
Oxford Electric Bell
apparatus (also known as the Clarendon Dry Pile), constructed in 1840, is located in the foyer of the Clarendon Laboratory.
See also
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References
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- ^
"The Townsend Building, Oxford"
,
www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/ British Listed Buildings
, UK
, retrieved
28 August
2015
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Townsend Building Conservation Plan
(PDF)
, UK:
University of Oxford
, September 2010
, retrieved
28 August
2015
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"The Beecroft Building"
. UK:
Department of Physics, University of Oxford
. Retrieved
28 August
2015
.
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"The Beecroft Building"
.
www.eocengineers.com/
. UK: Eckersley O'Callaghan. Archived from
the original
on 19 September 2015
. Retrieved
28 August
2015
.
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London, F.; London, H. (1935). "The Electromagnetic Equations of the Supraconductor".
Proceedings of the Royal Society A
.
149
(866): 71?88.
Bibcode
:
1935RSPSA.149...71L
.
doi
:
10.1098/rspa.1935.0048
.
JSTOR
96265
.
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RSC.
"Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford"
. RSC
. Retrieved
29 September
2012
.
External links
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