Groups
Areas in which the Laboratory has been very influential since 1950 include:-
- Shoenberg Laboratory for Quantum Matter (under Gil Lonzarich)
- Superconductivity Josephson junction (under A Brian Pippard)
- Theory of Condensed Matter, which is the dominant theoretical group.
- Electron Microscopy (under Archie Howie)
- Radio Astronomy (under Martin Ryle and Antony Hewish), with the Radio Astronomy Group's telescopes being based at Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory.
- Semiconductor Physics
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