Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge The Computer Laboratory is the computer science department of the University of Cambridge. As of 2007, it employs 35 academic staff, 25 support staff, 35 affiliated research staff, and about 155 research students. The current head of department is Professor Ann Copestake. The Cambridge University Computer Laboratory was founded as the "Mathematical Laboratory" under the leadership of John Lennard-Jones on 14 May 1937, though it did not get properly established until after World War II. The new laboratory was housed in the North Wing of the former Anatomy School, on the New Museums Site. Upon
Lyman Laboratory of Physics solid metallic hydrogen had been synthesised. Lyman Laboratory of Physics The Lyman Laboratory of Physics (named for the physicist Theodore Lyman) is a facility at Harvard University, located between the Jefferson and Crufts Laboratories near the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. It was built in the early 1930s, to a design by Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott. Among the staff are Sheldon Lee Glashow, Higgins Professor of Physics, Emeritus and Richard Wilson (physicist), Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Emeritus. Here, Ranga Dias (Post-Doctoral Fellow) and Isaac F. Silvera (Thomas D. Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences) claim