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40 Pictures: Waterloo gets new science centre
The Stephen Hawking Centre, dedicated to the world famous theoretical physicist, has been added to Waterloo's Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ont. The new space will house more theoretical physicists than anywhere else on Earth and will devote its resources to cutting-edge scientific research, training and outreach.
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The world's most famous living scientist poses during the construction of the Stephen Hawking Centre at Waterloo at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
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Staff do a final pre-opening window cleaning at the Stephen Hawking Centre on Sept. 16, 2011. The centre and the rest of Perimeter will house 250 foundational theoretical physicists -- more than any other place on Earth.
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The completed Stephen Hawking Centre: Because the 55,000-foot addition wraps around the original building, it will only increase Perimeter's footprint by 1/5, even though it will double the interior space.
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From left to right: Peter Braid, MP for Kitchener-Waterloo; George Ross, Deputy Minister of Ontario's Ministry of Research and Innovation; Gilles Patry, President and CEO of the Canada Foundation for Innovation; Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for Science and Technology; Neil Turok, Director of Perimeter Institute; Mike Lazaridis, Founder and Board Chair of PI; Michael Duschenes, COO of PI, Stephen Teeple, architect at Teeple Architects perform the official ribbon-cutting at the September 17 opening of the Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
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Director Neil Turok addresses a theatre of VIPs and media following the opening of Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute.
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Stephen Hawking addresses a crowd of hundreds of journalists and VIPs via video from Cambridge, U.K., during the Sept. 17 grand opening of the Stephen Hawking Centre at Waterloo.
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Left to right: Perimeter director Dr. Neil Turok, BMO CEO Bill Downe, and RIM co-founder and Perimeter founder Mike Lazaridis welcome MIT superstar Xiao-Gang Wen, far right, to the BMO Isaac Newton research chair at Perimeter.
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Governor General David Johnston pays tribute to Stephen Hawking following the ribbon cutting of the new Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute in Waterloo.
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Canadian astronaut Julie Payette pays tribute to Stephen Hawking following the ribbon cutting of the new Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute in Waterloo.
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Canadian songwriter and record producer and American Idol regular David Foster pays tribute to Stephen Hawking following the ribbon cutting of the new Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute in Waterloo.
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'Man In Motion' Rick Hansen pays tribute to Stephen Hawking following the ribbon cutting of the new Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute in Waterloo.
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Actor William Shatner pays tribute to Stephen Hawking following the ribbon cutting of the new Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute in Waterloo.
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Perimeter director Neil Turok speaks with guests at a reception following the official opening of the Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute in Waterloo.
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Members of the public walk the grounds outside the new Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute in Waterloo during Doors Open Waterloo, Sept. 18, 2011.
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A look at the back of the grounds at the new Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute.
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Guests get ready to tour the new Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute in Waterloo during Doors Open Waterloo, Sept. 18, 2011.
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Thousands lined up to tour the new Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute in Waterloo during Doors Open Waterloo, Sept. 18, 2011. Here, tourists line up in the atrium of the previous new Perimeter building.
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Look waaay up!...Guests ascend a maze of stairways into the new Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute in Waterloo during Doors Open Waterloo, Sept. 18, 2011.
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Crowds get ready for a walking tour of the new Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute in Waterloo during Doors Open Waterloo, Sept. 18, 2011.
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Courtyard in the sky: One of many multi-level green spaces at the new Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute in Waterloo.
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Staff gather at Perimeter's Black Hole Bistro before the official opening of the new Stephen Hawking Centre.
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Thousands of guests tour the newly-opened Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics during Doors Open Waterloo on Sept. 18, 2011.
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A visitor walks by one of many chalkboard walls at the new Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute in Waterloo during Doors Open Waterloo, Sept. 18, 2011.
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Like a complex physics problem, visitors weave in and out of multiple levels at the Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute in Waterloo during Doors Open Waterloo, Sept. 18, 2011.
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Guests tour the innovative 'Sky Room' at the newly-opened Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics during Doors Open Waterloo on Sept. 18, 2011.
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Guests tour the Sky Room at the new Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute in Waterloo during Doors Open Waterloo, Sept. 18, 2011.
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A look at the Perimeter Scholars International Room at the new Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Sept. 18, 2011.
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A look at the Time Room at the new Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute in Waterloo during Doors Open Waterloo, Sept. 18, 2011.
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Perimeter researcher Laurent Freidel writes out an equation on one of hundreds of blackboards at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
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Look ma, no supports! The Gravity Room on the 4th floor of the new Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute in Waterloo.
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Looking a little bit like Magneto's hovering prison cell in the first X-Men movie, the new Stephen Hawking Centre's Antigravity Boardroom, suspended by thick cantilevers, appears to 'float' four stories above the floor of the building's main atrium.
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Could this be the next big physics breakthrough? Or just a doodle of a menacing chalkboard monster at the new Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute in Waterloo?
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Visitors enjoy a mini-science-centre's-worth of hands-on experiments at the original Perimeter Institute, a historic clock tower building in downtown Waterloo.
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Children try their hand at some down-to-earth physics experiments during Doors Open Waterloo at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics on Sept. 18, 2011.
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Perimeter outreach staff member Damian Pope, background, demonstrates a recreation of a high-level theoretical physics experiment for an onlooker at the new Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute in Waterloo during Doors Open Waterloo, Sept. 18, 2011.
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Fantastic light: Visitors try out hands-on physics experiments at the original Perimeter Institute, a historic clock tower building in downtown Waterloo, Sept. 18, 2011.
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Perimeter outreach staff demonstrate a working 'model' black hole for members of the public at the new Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, during Doors Open Waterloo, Sept. 18, 2011.
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Perimeter outreach staff member Damian Pope, in red, demonstrates a hands-on cosmic ray demo at the new Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute in Waterloo during Doors Open Waterloo, Sept. 18, 2011.
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Guests make their way out of new Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute in Waterloo during Doors Open Waterloo, Sept. 18, 2011.
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The Sky Room illuminated at night at the new Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute in Waterloo.
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The Hercules globular star cluster, whose brightness has been exaggerated for clarity, shines above the Stephen Hawking Centre at Perimeter Institute, just to the right of the 'keystone' of the constellation Hercules. Just past the top of this photo is the constellation Cygnus. It was in the direction of this constellation that the first black hole was discovered.
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