The Cavendish Laboratory was founded in 1871, along with the appointment of James Clerk Maxwell as the first Cavendish Professor. It has a distinguished intellectual history, with 29 Nobel prizewinners who worked for considerable periods within its facilities, and is associated with many notable discoveries, including the electron and the structure of DNA. In 1973, the Laboratory moved from the historic centre of Cambridge to a green-field site, a mile west of the city centre. This formed the nucleus for the Universities development of a new physical science campus in West Cambridge.
The Department of Physics, housed in the Cavendish Laboratory, is large. Currently there are 65 teaching staff, approximately 150 postdoctoral fellows, about 250 graduate students in total (including administrative and technical support staff), a complement of 700 people. Total research grant income was over £14M in 2004/5, and has roughly doubled during the last decade. The Department (jointly with the Institute of Astronomy), was rated 5* (the highest possible) in the 2001 National Research Assessment Exercise performed by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). The undergraduate teaching programme is a vigorous one, with about 120 students annually proceeding to the 4-year MSci degree in Physics. During the first year, about 400 students take physics as part of the Natural Sciences Tripos. In the 1998 HEFCE subject review of teaching, the Department scored 23 out of a possible 24.
Research activities span all the areas of physics, and are organised under major research groupings: High Energy Physics, Astrophysics, Biological and Soft Systems, Semiconductor Physics, Optoelectronics & Microelectronics, Quantum Matter, Theory of Condensed Matter, and Physics and Chemistry of Solids.
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