Inscriptions: Clarendon Laboratory
The above plaque is on a wall next to the main entrance of the Clarendon Laboratory in Parks Road. It reads:
[Arms of Drapers’ Company, with motto
“UNTO GOD ONLY BE HONOUR AND GLORY”]
The Worshipful Company of DRAPERS of
the City of LONDON erected
this building for the promotion of
the Study of Electrical Science and
presented it to the Chancellor Masters
and Scholars of the University of Oxford
on the 21st day of June A.D. 1910.
Keddey May Fletcher Master
John Barrow, Bernard Francis Harris,
Webster Glynes, Gerald Walton Williams Wardens
Ernest Henry Pooley Clerk
The laboratory is named after Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, whose trustees paid £10,000 for the building of the original laboratory. It was, completed in 1872 and is the oldest purpose-built physics laboratory in England. The original building, substantially enlarged, is now part of the Oxford Earth Sciences Department.
The above plaque, erected by the Royal Society of Chemistry, is also on the Clarendon Laboratory. It reads:
RSC | Advancing the Chemical Sciences
National Chemistry Landmark
Clarendon Laboratory
where H G J Moseley (1887–1915) completed his
pioneering studies on the frequencies of
X-rays emitted from the elements.
His work established the concept of atomic number
and helped reveal the structure of the atom.
He predicted several new elements and
laid the ground for a major tool
in chemical analysis.
24 September 2007
Wikipedia: Clarendon Laboratory