University of Cambridge The New Cavendish Laboratory

The Department of Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory carries out a range of research into biological, extreme, materials and quantum physics themes, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. This diversity of approach allows for cross-fertilisation of ideas and synergies for the analysis of physics problems.

At the forefront of discoveries in physics
The core of the Laboratory’s research programme is experimental physics supported by excellence in theory. Our colleagues have a strong collaborative ethic, working with researchers from other disciplines and with industrial partners. This expansive approach has underpinned the success of 30 Nobel Prize winners whose names are associated with some of the world’s most fundamental discoveries: the electron, the neutron, the structure of DNA, and pulsars.