LeConte Hall
Berkeley, United States
Exterior only
Visible from the street; the inside is private.
LeConte Hall is a Beaux-Arts university building on the University of California, Berkeley campus in Berkeley, California, designed by John Galen Howard. It opened in 1924 as one of the largest physics buildings in the world and houses the university's physics department. It was also the site of the first atom collider, built by Ernest O. Lawrence in 1931. Named for the physicist brothers Joseph and John LeConte, the building lost that name in 2020 because of their white supremacist views, and as of 2021 no permanent replacement had been chosen.
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- Type
- university building
- Heritage
- National Register of Historic Places listed place
- Place
- Berkeley, United States
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