Schuster Laboratory

The Schuster Laboratory (also known as the Schuster Building) houses the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester and is named after Sir Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster. It is located on Brunswick Street, Manchester, as is within the Engineering and Sciences faculty of the University.[1] The building was designed by Fairhurst, Harry S. & Sons, of the Fairhurst Design Group,[2] and was completed in 1967.[1] The roof of the largest Lecture Theatre in the building has an abstract sculpture by Michael Piper on it.[3] The building was refurbished in 2007.[4]

Schuster Laboratory
General information
TypeAcademic teaching and research
LocationManchester
Coordinates53°28′1.71″N 2°13′50.62″W
Completed1967[1]
OwnerThe University of Manchester
Technical details
Floor count7
Design and construction
ArchitectFairhurst, Harry S. & Sons[2]

Architecture

The Schuster Laboratory was built during a time of expansion for the University, with the construction of a new Science Quadrangle. The Schuster Building was one of the later buildings constructed on this Quadrangle. The Electrical Engineering Laboratory, on the south side, was completed by 1954.[5] This was followed by the Simon Engineering Laboratories on the southwest of the quadrangle, finished in mid-1962, and the Chemistry building on the southeast which was completed by October 1964. The Schuster Laboratories had been approved, and planning was nearly completed, by the end of August 1962.[6]

Facilities
The Schuster annex near completion in 2017

The building houses four large lecture rooms around the foyer on the ground floor,[7] named after people who taught or carried out research in the department: Rutherford, Bragg, Blackett and Moseley.[1] The rooms are centrally allocated by the University, rather than being solely used by the department. Rutherford is the largest of the lecture theatres, holding 258, while Bragg holds 150, Blackett holds 145 and Moseley holds 148.[8] There is also a meeting room on the roof of one of the wings, called the Niels Bohr Common Room.[1] The building also houses workshop facilities and teaching laboratories,[9] and a small cafe on the ground floor, named "Error Bar" (previously known as "Eros Café").[10]

Occupation

The building was purpose-built for the Department of Physics and Astronomy. It currently contains the following groups:[9]

  • Biological Physics Group (3rd floor)
  • Condensed Matter Physics Group (2nd floor)[11]
  • Nonlinear Dynamics and Liquid Crystal Physics Group (0th floor)
  • Particle Accelerator Group (6th and 7th floor)[12]
  • Particle Physics Group (5th and 6th floor)[13]
  • Nuclear Physics Group (4th floor)[14]
  • Theoretical Physics Group (7th floor)[15]

The building used to house part of the Astronomy and Astrophysics group, as well as the Photon Physics Group, but these were relocated to the Alan Turing Building in September 2007.[4]

References
  1. Lafferty, George (23 February 2000). "The Schuster Laboratory". Retrieved 27 February 2008.
  2. Moss, John (6 January 2006). "Manchester Buildings and the Architects who built Manchester?". Retrieved 17 February 2008.
  3. Wyke, Terry (2004). Public Sculpture of Greater Manchester. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 0-85323-567-8.
  4. "School of Physics and Astronomy Newsletter, December 2006, Issue 1" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 July 2007. Retrieved 17 February 2008.
  5. Pullan, Brian; Michele Abendstern. "Section 1: 1950s expansion, Chapter 4: Buildings and social relations". A History of the University of Manchester 1951–1973. Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-5670-5.
  6. Manchester Local Executive Committee of the British Association (1962). "Chapter 18: The University of the Future". Manchester and its Region: A Survey prepared for The British Association. Manchester University Press.
  7. "meeting.manchester — Main Campus Oxford Road". University of Manchester. Archived from the original on 9 July 2007. Retrieved 17 February 2008.
  8. "Catalogue of Central Teaching and Meeting Rooms". The Directorate of Estates, University of Manchester. Retrieved 17 February 2008.
  9. "School of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 August 2007. Retrieved 17 February 2008.
  10. "Schuster Building (Error Bar) (FoodOnCampus)". University of Manchester. Archived from the original on 31 January 2008. Retrieved 17 February 2008.
  11. "People, Condensed Matter Physics, University of Manchester". Retrieved 17 February 2008.
  12. "Manchester Accelerator Group". Retrieved 16 October 2012.
  13. "Who's Who in the Manchester Particle Physics Group". Retrieved 17 February 2008.
  14. "Nuclear Physics Group — Contact details". Archived from the original on 1 December 2007. Retrieved 17 February 2008.
  15. "Staff List — Theoretical Physics Group". Archived from the original on 11 February 2008. Retrieved 17 February 2008.
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