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VI.—THE CAVENDISH LABORATORY. SINCE its foundation, the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge has held a very prominent position, not only as the home of the teaching of physical science in one of our great universities, but also as the centre of a vigorous and prolific school of scientific research. The history of the laboratory must always be intimately associated with the scientific labours of the three distinguished holders of the chair of experimental phyics in the University of Cambridge, J. Clerk Maxwell, Lord Rayleigh, and J. J. Thomson, each of whom, in his own direction, has exerted an unusually marked influence in the advance of physical science.
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Some Scientific Centres . Nature 69, 128–132 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/069128a0
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