Editing Clarendon Laboratory

{{Short description|Laboratory of Oxford University}}
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[[File:The Townsend Building, Parks Road, Oxford, October 2021.jpg|thumb|The Clarendon Laboratory – the main [[Townsend Building, Oxford|Townsend Building]] front facade]]
[[File:Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford.jpg|thumb|The Clarendon Laboratory [[Lindemann Building]] front facade (2008). ''Note: This view is now blocked by the 2018 Beecroft Building'']][[File:Clarendon Laboratory - Lindemann Building, Oxford.JPG|thumb|The Clarendon Laboratory – the Lindemann Building with the construction site of the new [[Beecroft Building]] (completed 2018) in front. ]]The '''Clarendon Laboratory''', located on [[Parks Road]] within the [[Science Area]] in [[Oxford]], England (not to be confused with the [[Clarendon Building]], also in Oxford), is part of the [[Department of Physics, University of Oxford|Department of Physics]] at [[Oxford University]]. It houses the [[Atomic, molecular, and optical physics|atomic and laser physics]], [[condensed matter physics]], and [[biophysics]] groups within the Department, although four other Oxford Physics groups are not based in the Clarendon Lab. The Oxford [[Centre for Quantum Computation]] is also housed in the laboratory.

==Buildings==
The Clarendon Laboratory consists of two adjoining buildings, the '''Lindemann Building''' (named after [[Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell]]) and the [[Grade II listed]] '''Townsend Building''' (named after Sir [[John Sealy Townsend]]).<ref>{{citation| url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-502794-the-townsend-building-oxfordshire#.VeB80vlVhBc | title=The Townsend Building, Oxford | website=www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/ British Listed Buildings | location=UK | accessdate=28 August 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{citation| url=http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/media/global/wwwadminoxacuk/localsites/estatesdirectorate/documents/conservation/Clarendon_Townsend_Building_Conservation_Plan.pdf | title=Townsend Building Conservation Plan | publisher=[[University of Oxford]] | location=UK | date=September 2010 | accessdate=28 August 2015 }}</ref>

The [[Beecroft Building]] (named after [[Adrian Beecroft]]) is now immediately in front of the Lindemann Building, completed in 2018 and designed by [[Hawkins/Brown|Hawkins\Brown]], with a budget of approximately £40 million.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/the-beecroft-building | title=The Beecroft Building | publisher=[[Department of Physics, University of Oxford]] | location=UK | accessdate=28 August 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.eocengineers.com/project/beecroft-building-208 | title=The Beecroft Building | website=www.eocengineers.com/ | publisher=Eckersley O'Callaghan | location=UK | accessdate=28 August 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919051016/http://www.eocengineers.com/project/beecroft-building-208 | archive-date=19 September 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

==History==
[[File:Clarendon Laboratory.jpg|thumb|[[Blue plaque]] erected by the [[Royal Society of Chemistry]] on the Townsend Building of the Clarendon Laboratory in 2007, commemorating [[Henry Moseley]]'s early 20th-century research work on X-rays emitted by elements.]]
The Clarendon is named after [[Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon]], whose trustees paid £10,000 for the building of the original laboratory, completed in 1872, making it the oldest purpose-built physics laboratory in England. The building was designed by [[Robert Bellamy Clifton]].

The brothers [[Fritz London|Fritz]] and [[Heinz London]] developed the [[London equations]] when working there in 1935.<ref>{{cite journal | first1=F. | last1=London | first2=H. | last2=London | title = The Electromagnetic Equations of the Supraconductor | journal=[[Proceedings of the Royal Society A]] | volume = 149 | issue = 866 | pages = 71–88 | year = 1935  | doi = 10.1098/rspa.1935.0048|bibcode = 1935RSPSA.149...71L | jstor=96265| doi-access =  }}</ref>

In 2007, the laboratory was granted chemical landmark status.<ref>{{cite web | author = RSC | url = http://www.rsc.org/Chemsoc/Activities/ChemicalLandmarks/UK/ClarendonLandmark.asp | title = Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford | publisher = RSC | accessdate = 29 September 2012}}</ref>
The award was bestowed due to the work carried out by  [[Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley]] in 1914.

==Current use==
The original building, substantially enlarged, is now part of the Oxford [[Earth Science]]s Department.
The [[Oxford Electric Bell]] apparatus (also known as the Clarendon Dry Pile), constructed in 1840, is located in the foyer of the Clarendon Laboratory.

==See also==
* [[Department of Physics, University of Oxford]]
* [[Denys Wilkinson Building]], a 1967 Department of Physics building
* [[Beecroft Building]], a 2018 Department of Physics building

==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/history.asp?page=HistoryBrief A brief history of Physics at Oxford] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080620141209/http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/history.asp?page=HistoryBrief |date=2008-06-20 }}
* [http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/history.asp?page=HistoryLong A longer history of Physics at Oxford] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080510185449/http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/history.asp?page=historylong |date=2008-05-10 }}

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