Blog Posts

#AnniversaryStory You’ve got work at 9am, and you’re making your way towards your department. You pass along Portugal Place and you look down through a grill into the basement of a house. There you see Francis Crick, resplendent in his dressing gown tucking into his breakfast and maybe thinking about the latest puzzle of...

#AnniversaryStory HOWZATTTT! It’s another day and the Cavendish is not out* of sports to talk about! Today, we look at the rich history of cricket being played by the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. You’re in luck because cricket is the most well-documented sport that the Cavendish played! E. Rutherford and J.J. Thomson...

#AnniversaryStory If you are at the Old Cavendish on Free School Lane, you may have seen the above image of a crocodile. But did you know that it could have been made after a joke? Nicknamed Kapitsa’s crocodile, after Nobel Laureate and leading Soviet physicist Pyotr Kapitsa, its origin has been tracked to the much-loved...

#AnniversaryStory We all know how illustrious Rutherford was as a scientist, but did you know he played golf every Sunday? Cavendish has a rich history of sports enthusiasts and here we look at this photo from 1929, of Rutherford and friends after their weekly game of golf at Gog Magog (South Cambridge). Rutherford was...