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Dr. Raymond Dearle

A grainy black and white portrait of a white man with glasses and slicked-back hair.

Copyright, University of Western Ontario, Physics Dept. archives; Fair Use

Dr. Raymond Dearle built the Physics Department at the University of Western Ontario from scratch. It was originally housed in a small space at London’s Victoria Hospital.

In the early 1920s Dr. Dearle convinced UWO that a great university needed a great physics department. In 1925 they moved across the city to the main campus, and a brand new building.