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Read more at: Kapitsa’s Crocodile
Kapitsa’s Crocodile

Kapitsa’s Crocodile

#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...


Read more at: Nora Sidgwick at the Cavendish Laboratory
Nora Sidgwick at the Cavendish Laboratory

Nora Sidgwick at the Cavendish Laboratory

#AnniversaryStory The ‘rogues’ gallery’ of graduate students in the Cavendish Laboratory from 1897 onwards is a popular display for alumni and visitors, who enjoy seeing themselves, their colleagues and lecturers as they were in their younger days. Questions are often asked about the women in the photographs. It should be...


Read more at: Cavendish looks back at its golfing history!
Cavendish looks back at its golfing history

Cavendish looks back at its golfing history!

#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...