Editing Cavendish Laboratory (section)

{{Short description|University of Cambridge Physics Department}}
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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.

The laboratory moved to its present site in [[West Cambridge]] in 1974.

{{As of|2019}}, 30 Cavendish researchers have won [[Nobel Prize]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www-outreach.phy.cam.ac.uk/resources/nobel/about.php |title=Nobel Prize Winners who have worked for considerable periods of time at the Cavendish Laboratory |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060112165035/http://www-outreach.phy.cam.ac.uk/resources/nobel/about.php |archive-date=2006-01-12}}</ref> Notable discoveries to have occurred at the Cavendish Laboratory include the discovery of the [[electron]], [[neutron]], and structure of [[DNA]].