shellph2.info Main Products Corporate Contact ... Feedback document.write(' '+''); sponsored links Cavendish Laboratory The Cavendish Laboratory is the University of Cambridge 's Department of Physics , and is part of the university's School of Physical Sciences. It was opened in as a teaching laboratory and was initially located on the New Museums Site, Free School Lane , in the centre of Cambridge. After perennial space problems, it moved to its present site in West Cambridge in the early 1970s. West Cambridge The Department is named after Henry Cavendish , a famous physicist , and a member of the Dukes of Devonshire branch of the Cavendish family. Another family member, William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire , was Chancellor of the University, and he gave money to endow the laboratory in memory of his learned relative. So far, 28 Cavendish researchers have won Nobel Prize s. The Cavendish Laboratory has had an important influence on biology , mainly through the application of X-ray crystallography to the study of structures of biological molecules. Francis Crick already worked in the Medical Research Council Unit, headed by | |
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