New building named after Nobel winning physicist
21 Aug 2018 by Evoluted New Media
The Oxford Science Park has opened the first new building on the Park since Magdalen College became its sole owner in 2016.
The Schrödinger Building was opened by Sam Gyimah MP, Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research & Innovation. Built to promote collaboration and cross-fertilisation of ideas, the four-storey office and laboratory facility is part of the programme of investment on the Park which has been ongoing since 2016.
Mr Gyimah said: “It’s an honour to open the Schrödinger Building at the Oxford Science Park, a place where ideas come to life. The businesses found here bring together world-leading research and the spirit of entrepreneurship. They hold the key not just to economic growth, but to how we solve our biggest societal challenges.”
The building is named after Professor Erwin Schrödinger, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1933 and an alumnus of Magdalen College Oxford, which owns The Oxford Science Park.
It is expected to house over 300 people once completed, and features a roof terrace overlooking the Park. Schrödinger’s legacy is celebrated in the building’s reception area with a backdrop panel highlighting the wave-particle duality which underpinned his Nobel Prize-winning work.
