George Herbert Jones Laboratory

Room 405, George Herbert Jones Laboratory
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
George Herbert Jones Laboratory
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Location	5747 S. Ellis Ave. Chicago, Illinois
Coordinates	41°47′24″N 87°36′4″W / 41.79000°N 87.60111°W / 41.79000; -87.60111
Built	1942
NRHP reference No.	67000005 [1]
Added to NRHP	May 28, 1967

The George Herbert Jones Laboratory is an academic building at 5747 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, on the main campus of the University of Chicago. Room 405 of the building was named a National Historic Landmark in 1967; it was the site where plutonium, the first man-made element, was isolated and measured.