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Overview

The Department of Physics has occupied the Varian Physics Building at Stanford University since it was first occupied in 1964. It also contained the Hansen Experimental Physics Lab (HEPL) and the offices of the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department. The three-story building had a concrete aggregate exterior with smooth concrete trim around third-floor windows and, basement windows and the first-floor's main entryway.

Building History

The noted Bay Region architect Gardner A. Dailey (1895-1967) designed the Russell H. Varian Laboratory of Physics in the early 1960s. At the same time, Dailey also designed the adjoining Physics Lecture Hall (1957, demolished in 1997) and Jack A. McCullough Hall (1965). These would be some of the last institutional buildings done by Dailey who died in 1967.

Building Notes

The top floor of the Varian Physics Building accommodated, in part, the Stanford University Physics Library from 1964 until 2010. According to the Stanford University Libraries web site: "June 2010, the Physics Library in the Russell H. Varian Laboratory of Physics closed. During the summer months, the active physics collection and the Physics Librarian relocated into the new Engineering Library space in the Science and Engineering Quad. The new Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Library opened in August 2010 housing both the engineering and physics collections. The Physics Library opened in Varian when the building opened in 1964. Prior to its Varian location, the Physics Library was located in Building 380." (See Stanford University Libraries, "Physics Collection," accessed 06/16/2016.)

Tel: 650.725.6544 (2016).

PCAD id: 8147