Due to the unusual layout of Kell Hall, some rooms were built over or next to the parking garage ramps. Often, these rooms were used for mechanical equipment.
Phil Outlaw with X-ray unit. The X-ray machine is shown with the precession camera mounted. Precession photographs confirmed that we had a single crystal and allowed us to allign crystals of organic solids with respect to their crystallographic…
This room was used for storage of archaeological artifacts, including some of the Phoenix Collection. It has an odd set of stairs leading to the raised floor because it is over the old parking ramp.
This small suite of rooms was labelled "Photographic Room" and two of the rooms seem designed as a dark room and entrance vestibule to prevent light from entering.The entrance with the room label had been obstructed with a refrigerator, but the…
L-R: Gus Petitt, Bill Mallard, Frank Hsu, Rod Nave, Jim Purcell, Martin Meder, Dave Wingert, Bill Nelson, Dick Miller, Steve Manson, Bob Hankla, Hal McAlister, Joe Hadley, Kathy Duggleby. [Description from Rod Nave's personal photograph website]
Three graduate students of that time: Doug Garland, Kevin Carpenter and Chuck Antoine. Doug was working with Rod Nave on a Master's thesis project in acoustics. [Description from Rod Nave's personal photograph website]
Rod in his office, 514B Kell Hall, which he occupied from 1968 until about 1990 when he moved to an office in the Science Annex which adjoins the Natural Science Center. In 1991 he opened a teaching laboratory in 222 NSC, developed with a grant based…
Rod preparing to mount a crystal sample in the field of the large magnet. Rod did several years of ESR (electron spin resonance) research after he shut down the microwave spectroscopy lab. This is in Joe Hadley's primary research area. [Description…
Rod adjusts the microwave frequency electronics for detecting the electron spin resonance signals. The dewar flask hanging over the magnet behind him is to allow data collection as low as liquid nitrogen temperature. The crystal samples are…
Rod is adjusting the temperature-control system that lets us control the temperature of the crystal sample in this ESR spectrometer. This is in Bill Nelson's lab and Rod did research on the radiation damage to some biologically related molecules and…