Lyman Laboratory of Physics

{{Short description|Physics laboratory at Harvard University}}

The Lyman Laboratory of Physics (named for the physicist Theodore Lyman) is a building at Harvard University located between the Jefferson and Cruft Laboratories in the North Yard.{{cite web

|url=https://map.harvard.edu/ |title=Map of Harvard |website=map.harvard.edu |access-date=27 January 2017}} It was built in the early 1930s, to a design by Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott{{cite web

|url=https://www.wilsonarch.com/expertise/historic/#storyharvard-university-lyman-laboratory |title=Lyman Laboratory, 1931. Harvard University |website=wilsonarch.com |access-date=15 April 2018}}

Among those who have done research at Lyman are Sheldon Glashow, Higgins Professor of Physics, Emeritus and Richard Wilson, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Emeritus. Here, Ranga P. Dias (Post-Doctoral Fellow){{cite web

|url=https://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/researchers |title=researchers directory|website=physics.harvard.edu/people |access-date=27 January 2017}} and Isaac F. Silvera (Thomas D. Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences){{cite web

|url=https://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/faculty |title=faculty directory |website=physics.harvard.edu/people |access-date=27 January 2017}} claim to have gathered experimental evidence that solid metallic hydrogen had been synthesised.

{{cite news

|last=Crane |first=L.

|date=26 January 2017

|title=Metallic hydrogen finally made in lab at mind-boggling pressure

|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/2119442-metallic-hydrogen-finally-made-in-lab-at-mind-boggling-pressure/

|newspaper=New Scientist

|access-date=2017-01-26

}}