- Collection:
- Historic Architecture and Landscapes of Georgia: The Hubert Bond Owens and John Linley Image Collections at the Owens Library
- Title:
- Physics building (University of Georgia)
- Creator:
- Owens, Hubert B.
- Date of Original:
- 1962-05
- Subject:
- Daniel Construction Company (Greenville, Sc.)
Williams, Joseph A., Dr.
Dixon, Ellis
University of Georgia
International Style (modern European architecture style)
Brick
Concrete
Schools
Universities
Architecture--Georgia--Athens
Architecture--Georgia--Clarke County - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Located at: University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.
Rectangular brick and concrete building constructed from 1955-59. From 1937 to 1967, Ellis Dixon was Head of the Physics department. He campaigned for a physics unit of a proposed Science Center, a dream realized with the construction of the Physics Building in 1959. He saw this new building, with its modern laboratories and equipment, as the necessary facility to support a Ph.D. program in Physics, first instituted in 1960. In July 1960 a two million volt Van de Graaff accelerator was installed in the new facility, and the following year a twenty-four inch reflecting telescope was mounted in the observatory atop the Physics-Astronomy building. In 1968 the department acquired a five million volt atomic accelerator for nuclear research. The Physics Building cost over 1.5 million dollars to build. It is part of the Science Center, the development of which was directed by Dr. Joseph A. Williams. The Science Center is located on forty acres of wooded hillside on South Campus, overlooking Sanford Stadium. Nearly 2.5 million was spent on the landscaping for the Science Center, developed by Hubert B. Owens with assistance from Hideo Sasaki, a landscape architecture professor at Harvard University. Dr. Williams and several faculty members and architectural representatives visited twenty different institutions before any drawings were made. The Science Center was designed by three firms, Abreu and Robeson, Aeck Associates, and Toombs, Amisano and Wells, who merged for the project under the trade name Associated Architects for the University of Georgia Science Center.
Slide annotated: "Physics Bldg, Science Center U. Ga."
Date of structure: 1959. - Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_larc_hbo0692
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_larc_hbo0692#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_larc_hbo0692/presentation/manifest.json
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of image], Hubert B. Owens Collection, Box 28, Owens Library, School of Environment and Design, The University of Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 slide : color
- Holding Institution:
- Owens Library
- Rights:
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