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Alumnus Gleb Akselrod: ‘The revolutionary nature of the idea’

Gleb Akselrod has always been interested in optics—from his dad’s lab to his startup Lumotive’s flagship product, solid-state optical semiconductors for next-generation LIDAR.

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) The Physics Seminary and Library

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Photo circa 1912 to 1914 of the Physics Seminary and Library in the original Physics Building at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (which now houses Materials Science and Engineering). The building and its library served as an intellectual hub for physicists and physics teaching and it facilitated collaboration as well as research. 

At its founding in 1889, the department was housed in University Hall. Then from 1894 to1909, the Physics Department was housed in Engineering Hall, until a dedicated building was erected.

Copyright Illinois Physics, courtesy of the Emilio Sègre Visual Archives of the American Institute of Physics.

Submitted by: Illinois Physics Historical Images

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