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CAMPUS The location of an American Memorial to Alfred Nobel Gustavus Adolphus College overlooks St. Peter and the on the campus of Gustavus Adolphus College received the Minnesota River Valley from its position on the west bank. official approval of the Board of Directors of the Nobel Along the crest of the hill with Christ Chapel in the center Foundation, in Stockholm, Sweden, and provision by the of the campus are residence halls, academic and service Foundation of important materials from its archives for the buildings, recreational facilities, and field laboratories. Nobel Gallery. The dedication of the Nobel Hall of Science There are grassy malls and tall shade trees among the was attended by twenty-six Nobel laureates, the Chairman buildings and on the hillside. of the Nobel Foundation Board, and its Executive Director of Stockholm, Sweden. The Alfred Nobel Memorial Hall of Science: This one­ hundred fifty room structure provides facilities for the Christ Chapel: A striking place of worship, Christ Chapel Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Geography, was dedicated on January 7, 1962. Ground was broken on Nursing, and Physics. Special features include chambers March 2, 1959, with Clement Attlee, former Prime Minister for radioactive materials, a two-hundred seat auditorium, of Great Britain, among the leaders of the Church and State and individual student research laboratories within each gathered for the event. Christ Chapel seats 1,500 people department. Other facilities include a five-section green­ and houses a four-manual, fifty-eight rank Hilgreen-Lane house with temperature and humidity controls for plant Organ. A continuing program of chapel enrichment in­ experimentation, a Foucault pendulum, an electron mi­ cludes a major religious sculpture program depicting the croscope, and private research laboratories in each profes­ history of the Church. Paul Granlund, Gustavus graduate, sor's office. Guggenheim Fellow and Gustavus Sculptor-in-Residence, is commissioned for this project.

NOBEL LAUREATES PARTICIPATING IN 1975 NOBEL CONFERENCE® Dr. Christian Anfinsen, Chemistry - 1972; Dr. George Beadle, Medicine -1958; Dr. Hans Bethe, Physics-1967; Dr. Felix Bloch, Phys ics -195 2; Dr. Walter Brattain, Physics-1956; Dr. Leon Cooper. Physics-1972; Dr. Andre Cournand, Medicine - 1956; Dr. Christian De Duve. Medicine -1974; Dr. John Eccles, Medicine-1963; Dr. Gerald Edelman, Medicine-1972; Dr. Robert Hofstadter, Physics - 1961 ; Dr. Charles Huggins, Medicine- 1966; Dr. Polykarp Kusch, Physics-1955; Dr. Simon Kuznets, Economics-1971 ; Dr. Willis Lamb. Physics -1955; Dr. Willard Libby, Chemi stry- 1960; Dr. Fritz Lipmann, Medicine -1953; Dr. Robert Mulliken, Chemistry-1966; Dr. Lars Onsager, Chemistry-1968; Dr. Julian Schwinger, Physics - 1965; Dr. Glenn Seaborg, Chemistry-1951; Dr. Emilio Segre, Physics-1959;Dr. William Shockley, Physics-1956; Dr. Ulf von Euler, Medicine- 1970; Dr. Ernest Walton, Physics - 1951; Dr. Thomas Weller, Medicine - 1954; Dr. Chen Ning Yang, Physics - 1957 Digitized and Provided by the College Archives, Gustavus Adolphus College