Science Area, Oxford
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 Oxford Science Area |
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| OS grid reference | SP515069 |
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| Civil parish | unparished |
| District | Oxford |
| Shire county | Oxfordshire |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Oxford |
| Postcode district | OX2 |
| Dialling code | 01865 |
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| EU Parliament | |
| UK Parliament | Oxford West and Abingdon |
| Website | Science Area, University of Oxford |
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Coordinates: 51°45′32″N 1°15′14″W / 51.759°N 1.254°W
The Science Area in Oxford, England, is where most of the science departments at Oxford University are located.[1][2]
Overview
The main part of the Science Area is located to the south of the University Parks and to the north of South Parks Road, bounded by Parks Road to the west. Some departments are also located south of South Parks Road. Close by to the northwest, further departments are located in a triangle of land bounded by the Banbury Road to the west, Keble Road to the south, and Parks Road to the northeast, opposite the University Parks.
Redevelopment
The Radcliffe Observatory Quarter further to the west between Woodstock Road and Walton Street, where the Radcliffe Infirmary hospital used to be located, is now being developed by the University for a number of departments, following the granting of planning permission in 2009. The re-organisation of this central part of the university’s science campus is accompanying the construction of a new Biochemistry Building design by Architects Hawkins Brown and Terra Firma Landscape Architects worked with them to design the new public interest and external facilities required by staff, researchers and students.
Departments
- Department of Biochemistry
- Chemistry Department:
- Chemistry Research Laboratory
- Chemical Biology
- Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory
- Organic Chemistry
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory
- Computer Science (formerly the Computing Laboratory):
- Numerical Analysis Group
- Programming Research Group
- Earth Sciences
- Engineering Science
- E-Research Centre
- Experimental Psychology
- Materials
- Mathematical Institute
- Physics Department:
- Astrophysics
- Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics
- Clarendon Laboratory:
- Atomic and Laser Physics
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Particle Physics
- Theoretical Physics
- Plant Sciences
- Statistics
- Zoology
See also
- Begbroke Science Park
- Dyson Perrins Laboratory
- Oxford Internet Institute
- Oxford Science Park
- Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
References
- ↑ Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 276–282. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
- ↑ Tyack, Geoffrey (1998). Oxford: An Architectural Guide. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 281–283. ISBN 0-19-817423-3.
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