Duke Physics

The Physics Department

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History

The Duke Physics Department, circa 1948 The Physics Department of Duke University offers exceptional opportunities to students working for advanced degrees, who want more individual attention and personal contacts than is generally possible at larger school. Graduate students: The University provides nine fellowships and assistantships in physics carry stipends from $900 to $1200 per year.

A "new" building will be completed early in 1949 There were nine faculty members [Carpenter, Hatley, Gordy, Greuling, London (Chemistry & Physics), Newson, Nielsen (Chair), Nordheim (DGS), Smith, Sponer]. In addition, the department employed 6 technicians and a glassblower.

In the 65 years, the faculty have grown to 42 members, the physical facilities have grown to four buildings (below), and the Graduate Students' stipends has grown a bit. But now we do not have a glassblower.

The old Physics Building

The old Physics building was built in 1948 and added onto in 1963. At first it housed the Physics Department and the library. Later on it became the Physics the Mathematics building (the library has moved to the main Duke Library). Of course, the interior has been updated, and we hope it will be renovated once more in the near future.
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The Physics Building	Tree and Bicycles	Students leaving (except one)
The Chapel (and the back of the Physics Department)	Fall/Autumn	Winter

The TUNL Building

Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory is a Department of Energy funded laboratory with research faculty from three major universities within the Research Triangle area: Duke University, North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Located on the campus of Duke University behind the Physics department, TUNL draws additional collaborators from many universities in the southeast, as well as from labs and universities across the country and all over the world.
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The Offices	The Laboratory	The Patio (and what is it?)

The FEL Building

The Duke FEL Laboratory is housed in a 52,000 square foot facility with the addition of the 13,000 square foot Keck Life Sciences Research Laboratory on the campus of Duke University in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area of North Carolina. Active areas of research at DFELL include FEL physics, nuclear physics, materials science, and biological and biomedical sciences.
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Front, with Trees	Front, with Trees	The Door

The French Building

The $115 million, 280,000-square-foot building, French Family Science Center (FFSC) was completed in 2006. It features state-of-the-art research and teaching laboratories for genomics, biological chemistry, materials science, nanoscience, physical biology and bioinformatics. The building will bring together several Arts & Science disciplines under one roof, providing space for the departments of chemistry and biology, biological anthropology and anatomy, mathematics and physics.
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The FFSC (and also the Physics Building on the right)	The back of the FFSC, and trees	The side, near to the Physics Building