The ladder
of science and technology on which humanity has climbed so high was built upon
the foundations laid in great research laboratories. If one were to list the
most important of these, the first name would have to be the Cavendish
Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. Research conducted in this single
laboratory has, to date, earned thirty-one Nobel Prizes.
The Cavendish Laboratory was established in 1874, when Sir William Cavendish, the 7th Duke of

