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[[Image:CavendishLab.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Southern aspect of the laboratory at its current site, viewed from across the lake]]
The '''Cavendish Laboratory''' is the Department of [[Physics]] at [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]]
The Department is named after [[William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire]], who was Chancellor of the University, and
The current head of the Cavendish is [[Peter Littlewood]]. The [[Cavendish Professor of Physics|Cavendish Professorship of Physics]] is currently held by [[Richard Friend|Sir Richard Friend]].▼
▲The Department is named after [[William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire]], who was Chancellor of the University, and gave money to build the laboratory.<ref>The Times 4 Nov 1873 page 8</ref> Professor [[James Clerk Maxwell]], the developer of [[electromagnetic theory]], was a founder of the Cavendish laboratory and was the first [[Cavendish Professor of Physics]].<ref>Cambridge University , Department of Physics website "The Old Cavendish - "The First Ten Years" by Dennise Moralee, from the booklet "A Hundred Years and More of Cambridge Physics," http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/history/old_maxwell.php </ref>
{{As of|2006}}, 29 Cavendish researchers have won [[Nobel Prize]]s.<ref>[http://www-outreach.phy.cam.ac.uk/resources/nobel/about.php] — Nobel Prize Winners who have worked for considerable periods of time at the Cavendish Laboratory</ref>
==About the Department==
The Cavendish Laboratory 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. Physical Chemistry (originally the department of Colloid Science under Eric Rideal) left the Cavendish site earlier, subsequently locating as the Department of Physical Chemistry (under RG Norrish) in the then new chemistry building with the Department of Chemistry (under Lord Todd) in Lensfield Road: both chemistry departments merged in the 1980s.
▲The current head of the Cavendish is [[Peter Littlewood]]. The [[Cavendish Professor of Physics|Cavendish Professorship of Physics]] is currently held by [[Richard Friend|Sir Richard Friend]].
==Nuclear physics==
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