Columbia's President, former General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, at the dedication of the Nevis (Westchester County) Cyclotron, May 2, 1950, with Prof. I. I. Rabi, Visiting Prof. Hideki Yukawa, and Prof. John R. Dunning. Photo courtesy Columbia University Archives - Columbiana Library.

Below: Columbia's "new" Physics Laboratory building at its opening, 1927. The building was afterward named for Prof. Michael Pupin. Designed by the famous architectural firm McKim, Meade and White to cohere with the design of other campus buildings, the Pupin Physics Laboratories was declared a national landmark in 1965. Photo courtesy Columbia University Archives - Columbiana Library.

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