Let’s get physical January 07, 2016 2:15 PM | Photo from the Tulane University Archives newwave@tulane.edu View PDF A freshman physics laboratory class conducts experiments in F. Edward Hebert Hall in this vintage photograph from 1913. At the time it was built on the Tulane University uptown campus, it was the only laboratory in the southern United States designed exclusively for physics research including little or no iron in its construction (for magnetic reasons), slate slabs for instruments, and piers for instruments that were isolated from the framework of the building.