Cavendish Laboratory
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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.
Cavendish plaque at original New Museums Site
Entrance at the original Cavendish Laboratory site on Free School Lane
Sir Ernest Rutherford's physics laboratory- early 20th century
Southern aspect of the laboratory at its current site, viewed from across 'Payne's Pond'
J. J. Thomson
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Sir Joseph John Thomson was a British physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics, credited with the discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle to be found.
First page to Notes on Recent Researches in Electricity and Magnetism (1893)
In the bottom right corner of this photographic plate are markings for the two isotopes of neon: neon-20 and neon-22.