The Clarendon Laboratory in Oxford, England (not to be confused with the Clarendon Building, also in Oxford) is part of the Physics Department at Oxford University. It houses the atomic and laser physics and condensed matter physics groups within the Department, although four other Oxford Physics groups are not based in the Clarendon Lab. The Oxford Centre for Quantum Computation is also housed in the laboratory. Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 (2001 census). ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Religion... The Clarendon Building in Oxford, England, stands in the ceremonial center of the University of Oxford, near the Bodleian Library and the Sheldonian Theatre. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Physics sci. ... The University of Oxford, situated in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Atomic, molecular, and optical physics is the study of matter-matter and light-matter interactions on the scale of single atoms or structures containing a few atoms. ... Condensed matter physics is the field of physics that deals with the macroscopic physical properties of matter. ... The Center for Quantum Computation part of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, conducts theoretical and experimental research into all aspects of quantum information processing, and into the implications of the quantum theory of computation for physics itself. ...

The Clarendon is named after Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, whose trustees paid £10,000 for the building of the original laboratory, completed in 1872, one year before the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge, making it the oldest purpose-built physics laboratory in England. The original building, substantially enlarged, is now part of the Oxford Earth Sciences Department. Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (February 18, 1609 - December 9, 1674), English historian and statesman. ... 1872 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... The Cavendish Laboratory is in the Department of Physics of the University of Cambridge. ... The city of Cambridge is an old English university town and the regional centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. ... Earth science (also known as geoscience, the geosciences or the Earth Sciences), is an all-embracing term for the sciences related to the planet Earth. ...

External links

• A brief history of Physics at Oxford (http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/history.asp?page=HistoryBrief)
• A longer history of Physics at Oxford (http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/history.asp?page=HistoryLong)