Olin Physical Sciences Center

The F.W. Olin Physical Sciences building is home to the Aerospace, Physics and Space Sciences Department. It is located in the Olin Quad, just south of the Olin Engineering Complex.

The building houses state-of-the-art instrumentation, such as the nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, gas electron multiplier detectors and an array of small and large telescopes. Many research projects are housed in this building, including the world’s largest Mars chamber and a muon detection system for the Large Hadron Collider.

Olin Physical Sciences features a rooftop observatory—home to the Ortega Observatory and its 0.8-meter (32-in) telescope, the largest in Florida—as well as a geospace laboratory with a clean room for spacecraft instrumentation projects and a 3,500-square-foot high bay physics research hall for magnetic levitation launch systems and high-energy physics research.