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| Description: university: Silver Street: Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics |
| Date built: 1820s; 1831-1832 |
| Architect: James Walter; Edward Blore |
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| Date photograph taken: 13 Nov 2000 | (Alternative map: Google map) |
Not the most elegant of buildings, once being a printing house and warehouse for Cambridge University Press. Walter designed the (east-facing) building straight ahead in the photo, and Blore designed the orthogonal wing at the right.
The tower of the CUP Pitt Building (which Blore also designed) can just be seen reflected in the windows.
DAMTP was founded by George Batchelor in 1959, and after various temporary premises, the department moved into this building in 1964, after CUP vacated it because of their move to Shaftesbury Road.
Batchelor was head of the department from 1959 until 1991. In 1964 his (first) reappointment as head sparked a battle with Fred Hoyle, who subsequently left the department to form the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy in 1967.
The department covers subjects ranging from the applicable (fluid mechanics) to the abstruse (general relativity). This was the building in which Stephen Hawking, the most famous living resident of Cambridge, worked for most of his career.
Starting in 2000, the department moved to the Centre for Mathematical Sciences in west Cambridge.
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