Lyman Laboratory of Physics

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The Lyman Laboratory of Physics (named for the physicist Theodore Lyman) is a building at Harvard University located between the Jefferson and Cruft Laboratories in the North Yard. [1] It was built in the early 1930s, to a design by Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott [2]

Among those who have done research at Lyman are Sheldon Glashow, Higgins Professor of Physics, Emeritus and Richard Wilson, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Emeritus. [3] Here, Ranga P. Dias (Post-Doctoral Fellow) [4] and Isaac F. Silvera (Thomas D. Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences) [3] claim to have gathered experimental evidence that solid metallic hydrogen had been synthesised. [5]

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References

  1. "Map of Harvard". map.harvard.edu. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
  2. "Lyman Laboratory, 1931. Harvard University". wilsonarch.com. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  3. 1 2 "faculty directory". physics.harvard.edu/people. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
  4. "researchers directory". physics.harvard.edu/people. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
  5. Crane, L. (26 January 2017). "Metallic hydrogen finally made in lab at mind-boggling pressure". New Scientist . Retrieved 2017-01-26.

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