Painter Hall (formerly the Physics Building) is an academic building located on the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,07 ...

campus. Named after

Theophilus Painter Theophilus Shickel Painter (August 22, 1889 – October 5, 1969) was an American zoologist best known for his work on the structure and function of chromosomes, especially the sex-determination genes X and Y in humans. He was the first to discove ...

, the building was constructed in 1933, expanded in 1957 and remodeled in 1974.

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