Loomis Lab and Physics Building

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Inside the physics building, students learn to measure and manipulate the fundamental interactions of matter, energy, space and time so they have the tools to solve scientific mysteries and reveal the workings of nature. Physics has produced the science behind technologies such as superconducting magnets for MRI machines, cell phones, supermarket scanners, particle accelerators and fiber-optic communications. 

Named in 1977 after Professor F. Wheeler Loomis, head of the department of physics from 1929-1957, the Loomis Lab in the Department of Physics is committed to reducing carbon footprint and energy consumption. 

Loomis was a leading contributor to research in molecular spectra and their interpretation in terms of the then new quantum mechanics. He came to the University of Illinois as head of the department of physics in 1929. His teaching ranged from imaginative lecturing in the introductory courses to the supervision of graduate students in research. In 1955, Polykarp Kusch, a student of Loomis won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron.

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