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A student workshop, “Practical Mechanics”, was established to repair laboratory equipment under the direction of Charles Friedel in 1900. This proved to be a valuable aid to the continuation of laboratory physics at the UO, while also expanding students’ basic knowledge of how to make their own equipment.
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Bernd Crasemann remembers his students using “old-fashioned electronics” to set up experiments in atomic physics: “We actually had visitors say: ‘You built yourself one of those?!’ It was, in those days, a matter of twenty or thirty thousand dollars.”
Photo: Harlan Lefevre with students Chuck Burke (right) and Ryan Sealock (back) set up the Van de graaff accelerator, a research tool for nuclear physics. (1960s) |
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Along with more than 50% of his graduating class, Goldwater Scholar Ian Sullivan conducted physics research while an undergraduate. Sullivan wrote computer programs and helped to redesign and rebuild an oscillating sphere in Russell Donnelly’s lab, enabling his team to discover new phenomena related to fluid flow. Published in Physics of Fluids 14: 4192-4205 (2002).
Photo: Ian Sullivan |
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