 The front of the laboratory, from Prince Consort Road | |
| Established | 1961 (Department since 1906) |
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Head of Department | Professor Michele Dougherty[1] |
| Faculty | Imperial College Faculty of Natural Sciences |
| Students | 1,316[2] |
| Location | Prince Consort Road, London, United Kingdom 51°29′58″N 0°10′45″W / 51.49944°N 0.17917°W |
| Campus | South Kensington |
| Website | www |
| Map | |
  Location in Albertopolis, South Kensington | |
The Blackett Laboratory is part of the Imperial College Faculty of Natural Sciences and has housed the Department of Physics at Imperial College London since its completion in 1961.[3] Named after experimental physicist Patrick Blackett who established a laboratory at the college,[4] the building is located on the corner of Prince Consort Road and Queen's Gate, Kensington. The department ranks 11th on QS's 2018 world university rankings.[5]
- ^ "Head of Department's Office | Faculty of Natural Sciences".
- ^ "STATISTICS POCKET GUIDE 2016–17" (PDF).
- ^ Narcross, Jon (2014–2016). "Imperial's Blackett Lab recognised as an historic site in physics research". Imperial College. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
- ^ Blackett ..."helped establish world-class laboratories at the University of Manchester and Imperial College London" Rebekah Higgitt 22 April 2016 at theguardian.com/science Accessed 28 January 2017
- ^ "QS World University Rankings by Subject 2018 - Physics & Astronomy | Top Universities".