University of Edinburgh School of Physics and Astronomy
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| Affiliation | EPCC, Institute of Physics |
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| Campus | James Clerk Maxwell Building, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Website | www |
The University of Edinburgh School of Physics and Astronomy is the physics department of the University of Edinburgh. The school was formed in 1993 by a merger of the Department of Physics - called the Department of Natural Philosophy until the late 1960s - and the Department of Astronomy, both at the University of Edinburgh. The school is part of the University's College of Science and Engineering.
Institutions and research groups based within the school include:
The school is housed in the James Clerk Maxwell Building on the University's King's Buildings campus.
Notable physicists associated with the University have included Joseph Black, Max Born, Peter Higgs, James Clerk Maxwell and Peter Guthrie Tait. Five winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics are associated with the University (Edward Victor Appleton, Charles Glover Barkla, Max Born, Igor Tamm and Peter Higgs).
Coordinates: 55°55′18″N 3°10′25″W / 55.92174°N 3.17368°W
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