Universities Minister Sam Gyimah opens Schrödinger Building in Oxford

Oxford alumnus and Minister of State for Universities. Research and Innovation, Sam Gyimah, has formally opened the Schrödinger Building in Oxford, a £13 million, 61,500 ft2 laboratory and office facility designed to promote collaboration and cross-fertilisation of ideas. The four-storey building on The Oxford Science Park is part of a programme of investment on the site that has been ongoing since 2016. The building is named after Professor Erwin Schrödinger, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1933 and an alumnus of Magdalen College Oxford, which owns The Oxford Science Park. As well as declaring the Schrödinger Building open, the Minister also heard about the work of 3D technology innovator Fuel3D and Oxford Sciences Innovation, its first two occupiers. A third occupant is expected to be announced shortly. Following speeches by Magdalen College President, Professor Sir David Clary, and the Park's Managing Director Piers Scrimshaw-Wright, the Minister, who studied PPE at Oxford, spoke at length about the need for an open culture of innovation premised on a UK that was wide open to skilled immigrants.