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Cavendish Laboratory

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Ray Dolby Centre - Cavendish Laboratory - Cambridge University

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Cavendish Lab

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"Stephen Hawking" in j.j Thomson & Rutherford Lab

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Ray Dolby Centre - Cavendish Laboratory - aerial view October 2021

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Ray Dolby Centre - Cavendish Laboratory - aerial view December 2021

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. The laboratory moved to its present site in West Cambridge in 1974. As of 2011, 29 Cavendish researchers have won Nobel Prizes.
  • Founding 

  • Physics 

  • Physical chemistry 

  • Nuclear physics 

  • Biology 

  • Present site 

  • Nobel Laureates at the Cavendish 

  • Cavendish Professors of Physics 

  • Cavendish staff