Eric Burhop
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Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop, was an Australian physicist and humanitarian.
Burhop uses an optical pyrometer to measure the temperature within an apparatus
Sir Ernest Rutherford's laboratory
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Main Ring and Main Injector as seen from the air. The circular ponds dissipate waste heat from the equipment.
Mark Oliphant
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Sir Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant, was an Australian physicist and humanitarian who played an important role in the first experimental demonstration of nuclear fusion and in the development of nuclear weapons.
Oliphant in 1939
The Cavendish Laboratory was the home of some of the great discoveries in physics. It was founded in 1874 by the Duke of Devonshire (Cavendish was his family name), and its first professor was James Clerk Maxwell.
Sir Ernest Rutherford's laboratory, 1926
The Poynting Physics building at the University of Birmingham. Its mode of construction helped give rise to the phrase "redbrick university".