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Inscriptions: Clarendon Laboratory


Inscription on Clarendon Laboratory

The above plaque is on a wall next to the main entrance of the Clarendon Laboratory in Parks Road. It reads:

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

Plaque to Moseley

The above plaque put up 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

© Stephanie Jenkins

 

Last updated: 22 January, 2008

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