 |
| Address |
Sorbonnelaan 4
|
| Architect |
Haskoning
|
| Year |
1965
|
| Use |
The building was built to provide the
Faculty of Physics with a highly specialized workshop where
non standard tools an instruments for research and teaching
purposes could be manufactured. Nowadays the IGF (Instrumental
Group Physics) develops unique equipment here for research
areas varying from subatomic physics to astronomy.
|
| Awards |
|
| Relevant websites |
• Regional
Television Utrecht did a special on 40 years of IGF.
|
| Opened |
Aug. 1965
|
| Sq. metrage |
| m2 |
| Cost |
| € |
| Contractors |
|
| Landscape designer |
| |
| General information |
The building is
limited in size and has underground connections to the
neighbouring laboratories.
|
| The name of the building |
The building was officially named after
Caroline Bleeker Mar. 25 1998. Until then the building was
referred to as 'centrale werkplaats' (central workshop).
Caroline
Emilie Bleeker (Jan. 17 1897 - Nov. 8 1985). Caroline
Bleeker studied at Utrecht University from
1916. Her teachers were prof. Willem Hendrik
Julius and prof. Leonard Salomon Ornstein. The latter awarded
her cum laude for her Ph.D thesis on an experimental fysics
subject in 1928. Ze was a very talented physician, both
experimentally as well as theoretically. She founded the
'Physisch Adviesbureau' and the "Nederlandse
Optiek en Instrumentenfabriek Dr. C.E.BLEEKER", originally
in Utrecht and from 1949 onwards in Zeist. She was company
director from Jun 5 1930 until Dec 31 1963.
Her cooperation with 1953
Nobel Prize laureate prof.
dr. F. Zernike was a striking
example of the fruitful interaction with fundamental science
that resulted in the production of new research instruments.
Zernike received the Nobel Prize for the development of
the phase contrast microscope. The ' Nederlandse Optiek
en Instrumentenfabriek Dr. C.E. BLEEKER' acted as both
a research laboratory and a factory for microscopes, lenses
and other optical equipment for Zernike. The revolutionary
new material was produced and tested here. Dr. Bleeker
held the patent for the variable phase contrast method. Caroline
Bleeker signed a contract with Zernike on the commercial usage
of the phase contrast microscopes.
 |
