Cavendish Laboratory

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Official account of the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge. Pioneering physics since 1874.

Prospective students visiting the undergraduate laboratories.
A premium dark chocolate bar with one square broken off on a dark background. The text reads: World Chocolate Day Think chocolate is just a sweet treat? From crystal structures to fluid mechanics, every bite is packed with fascinating physics. Swipe to discover the science behind your favourite chocolate.
Prospective student with family getting more information about Isaac Science
Students working on physics experiments and attending a classroom lecture with a chalkboard.
Polarisation of blue laser light being adjusted before cooling atoms to near absolute zero. Credit: Dr Thomas Walker. © Imperial College London.
IonQ quantum computer.
Mete Atatüre, Head of Department, Cavendish Laboratory with John Jumper, Google DeepMind
Prospective student with family attending 2025 Open day
Peter Littlewood in his Head of Department office
Roberto Maiolino with the President of Italy, Sergio Mattarella.
RDC Opening event
This stunning photograph was taken by local resident from near the facility, perfectly showcasing the dramatic power and beauty of the night sky above MRAO. 📸 Photo credit: Douglas Thompson
Overlaid display of candidate dark matter production event at an LHC with a Gravitational Lens image of the mass distribution in the Bullet Cluster from the Hubble telescope.
Dolby Symposium poster
Marco Guimaraes
Cavendish Researchers who are building a new radio telescope in Cambridge
Image description: Triplet states glowing on anthracene molecules attached to lanthanide nanocrystals in solution Image credit: Rakesh Arul, Huangtianzhi Zhu, Google Gemini, Powerpoint
Dolby Symposium poster
Apple tree at the Battcock Centre - Courtesy of Eloy de Lera Acedo.
Mercedes-AMG 2026 show car
Prof Didier Queloz
The Hidden Heart of HARPS3 by Samantha Thompson, First Prize 2025
Students conducting experiments in the undergraduate labs
A vintage-style poster with a textured beige background reads “A tactile history of science in print”. Also, illustrations of scientific objects: a globe, a microscope, a telescope, a laboratory flask, and an ink bottle with a quill pen can be seen.
The building blocks of the new materials are rods connected by small motors that make the material active. The interactions are non-reciprocal: when pressed from one side the system reacts in a different way than when pressed from the other side. Image by the research authors.
Illustration of hybrid array disentangling seismic waves in the Earth and gravitational waves from outer space. Credit: Jeremiah Mitchell ,( GoogleData SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA, GEBCOLandsat / CopernicusIBCAOU.S. Geological SurveyGeoBasis-DE/BKG (©2009)Inst. Geogr. Nacional)
“Creativity” by Bill Pfann, outside the Quantum Engineering Group office
Happy Easter
Noam Mouelle
James Webb Space Telescope
Mark Thomson standing in front of students.
Ray Dolby Centre at dusk. Killian O'Sullivan
Image: Image of the galaxy Image credit: Luhman et al. 2023, The Astronomical Journal
Happy International Women's day visual.
Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell,
One of our hands-on nanophotonics sessions from last year. In the Nanophotonics research group we use surface-enhanced #plasmonics to detect molecules far too small to see, as signals grow stronger near the plasmonic surface. You can see in the image the ball lights up closer to the surface.
Head of Department and Professor of Physics Professor Mete Atatüre with Professor Stuart Parkin.
Stuart Parkin on a green background, with the details of the talk detailed on the right: Scott Lectures 2026 with Prof Stuart Parkin. 2D van des Waal materials for spintronics. Wednesday 25 February 2026 at 4:15pm
Stuart Parkin on a green background, with the details of the talks detailed below the photo: Scott Lectures 2026 - One speaker, one theme, three lectures Prof Stuart Parkin: Spintronics for massive data memory-storage 23, 25 and 27 February 2026 Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US
One of the students in a Cavendish Lab
Stuart Parkin on a green background, with the details of the talks detailed below the photo: Scott Lectures 2026 - One speaker, one theme, three lectures Prof Stuart Parkin: Spintronics for massive data memory-storage 23, 25 and 27 February 2026 Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US
Surface Matters illustration by Dr Shaoliang Guan
Lucy smiling in front of a radio telescope in the sunset. Her quote reads: "The pulsar research field is so dynamic and there is such a wide range of things you can investigate with them – there will be a connection to just about every area of physics you can think of!"
One of the researchers inside a Cavendish Lab
Building Illustration
Cambridge Physics Experience participants.
Nicola Marzari portrait | Credit: Jernej Stare
The image is an illustration of moon with earth in the background.
The MROI telescopes and sky at night.
Close-up view of an object under a microscope, with light trapped inside. Credit: Dr. Rakesh Arul