Carl F. Eyring Science Center

The Carl F. Eyring Science Center (ESC) is one of the science buildings on Brigham Young University campus. It was built in 1950 and named after Carl F. Eyring in 1954.

The Eyring Science Center houses the Departments of Physics and Astronomy, Geology and Food Science and Nutrition. The Department of Chemistry has in the past been located at the Eyring Science Center [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=51304] but is not currently headquartered there.

In 1968 an underground physics research lab was added to the north end of the building. Research on cold fusion was conducted at this location. In the late 1990s most of the research in the underground lab was being done with lasers.

Also in the building is the Sarah Berrett Summerhays Planetarium. The building also has an acoustics lab, which is surrounded by the ESC but is structurally independent. A new state of the art planetarium was added in 2005 and named after Royden G. Derrick. [https://www.lds.org.uk/church_world_news.php?id=141]

The 5th and 6th floors of the Eyring Science Center constitute the Orson Pratt Observatory, named after Orson Pratt. [http://astronomy.byu.edu/opo.php]

In the early years of the ESC James A. Jensen's dinosaur displays were often in the lobby. However since the building of the BYU Earth Science Museum there are not often dinosaur displays.

The main lobby of the building is noted for its pendulum. It also is the home to a student-run restaurant, the Pendulum Court.

The Eyring Science Center was the first BYU building to have an elevator.

In the summer of 2006 a new dome was installed on the Eyring Science Center's observatory to better allow for astronomical study on campus.

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