The Lyman Laboratory of Physics (named for the physicist Theodore Lyman) is a building at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

located between the Jefferson and Cruft Laboratories in the North Yard. It was built in the early 1930s, to a design by Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott. Among those who have done research at Lyman are

Sheldon Glashow Sheldon Lee Glashow (, ; born December 5, 1932) is a Nobel Prize-winning American theoretical physicist. He is the Metcalf Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Boston University and Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Emeritus, at Harvard ...

, Higgins Professor of Physics, Emeritus and Richard Wilson, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Emeritus. Here, Ranga Dias (Post-Doctoral Fellow)researchers directory
at physics.harvard.edu/people Accessed 27 January 2017 and Isaac F. Silvera (Thomas D. Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences)faculty directory
at physics.harvard.edu/people Accessed 27 January 2017 claim to have gathered experimental evidence that solid

metallic hydrogen Metallic hydrogen is a phase of hydrogen in which it behaves like an electrical conductor. This phase was predicted in 1935 on theoretical grounds by Eugene Wigner and Hillard Bell Huntington. At high pressure and temperatures, metallic hydro ...

had been synthesised.

References

Harvard University Physics laboratories University and college laboratories in the United States {{Massachusetts-struct-stub