The University of Chicago Stable Isotope Ratio facility
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Research
Institutes
building
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The building may be
gone, but the institutes live on: Enrico Fermi Institute James Franck Institute |
| Research
Institutes building demolition, 2012 May 7, 2010, front of Research Institutes (library in foreground) Roof work already begun.  |
and in it's place: (to
be built) William Eckhardt Research Center  Artists rendition from the UChicago News article, "New Eckhardt Center building to provide home for precision science" |
| May 16, 2012, front of Research Institutes
(library in forground) Roof structures gone, front more of a shell now.  |
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| May 18, 2012 Research
Institutes demolition from the back Center section of building completely gone  |
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May, 2012 where
Research Institutes building stood, library in
foreground. Some
remninents of the old building can be seen on either
side of the
picture. |
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May 21, 2012 Looking through
the middle of the Resrearch Institutes building, just
the two end pieces remaining |
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May, 24 2012 End pieces of Research
Institutes building coming down |
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May 26, 2012 Research
Institutes demolition almost complete |
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May 29, 2012 Mopping up after Research
Institutes demolition. |
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| Inside the RI: Vacuum line with Toepler pumps and furnaces.  |
Inside the RI: Jim O'Neil's high temperature and pressure setup in Bob Clayton's lab (ok, high temperature and pressure for low temperature geochemists).  |
| Inside
the RI: Emptying the labs...  |
...and
moving the the bits to Hinds: Vacuum rack in A. Colman's lab, complete with vacuum line for clumped isotope work on carbonates:  |