Gilman Hall
Gilman Hall was built in 1916-17 to accommodate
an expanded College of Chemistry under the leader-
ship of Gilbert Newton Lewis. This building provided
research laboratories and teaching facilities for
faculty and students specializing in physical,
inorganic, and nuclear chemistry. Work here by
G. N. Lewis and K. S. Pitzer helped advance the fields
of chemical thermodynamics and molecular struc-
ture. Research performed in Gilman Hall has
resulted in two Nobel Prizes: to William F. Giauque
in 1949 for his studies on the behavior of
substances at extremely low temperatures, and to
Glenn T. Seaborg in 1951 for discoveries in the
chemistry of the transuranium elements. Four other
individuals who did research here subsequently
received Nobel Prizes.