Balliol-Trinity Laboratory

Bowen, E. J. (1970). The Balliol-Trinity Laboratories, Oxford 1853-1940. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 25(2) 228-229. 

Figure 4.4 Henry Moseley in the Balliol-Trinity Laboratory in 1910. The photograph was provided by the Museum of the History of Science.

T. W. M. Smith, The Balliol-Trinity Laboratories , in J. M. Prest, Balliol Studies, Leopard s Head Press, London, 1982, p. 192. 

University. In autumn 1924 the University went further. It began to pay the laboratory fees of all students in the Balliol-Trinity, Jesus, and Queen s laboratories, thus in prineiple increasing the subsidy to the Balliol-Trinity Laboratory, but Hartley agreed informally not to accept more than 600 per annum. 

Figure 5.2 The Balliol/Trinity laboratories, see text. (Reproduced with permission from the President and Fellows of Trinity College, Oxford.)...

Before the war Nagel who was a non-researcher ran the Balliol-Trinity Laboratory, leaving research to Hartley. But from 1921, when Hinshelwood succeeded Nagel at Trinity and joined forces with Hartley, the new director of the laboratory, research received greater emphasis. Though Hartley had studied in Munich under Willstatter and Groth, his greatest debt was to... 

By late 1937 Lord Nuffield had given 100,000 to pay for it and ICI had promised 10,000 for maintenance. In spite of the difficulties caused by the runup to the war and the war itself, a University physical chemistry laboratory, for which Soddy had campaigned so fruitlessly, was ready for occupation in the darkest year of the war, 1941, and the Balliol-Trinity Laboratory was closed but not forgotten. Its contribution to physical chemistry at Oxford was commemorated by the arms of the two colleges carved on the front of the new building. ... 

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