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The Grove

2010-10-14T16:17:59Z

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[[Image:Grove.jpg|thumb|240px|View down 120th Street. '''The Grove''' on the left, Teachers College on the right, and Milbank Hall in the distance.]]
[[Image:Grove2.jpg|thumb|240px|The Grove]]
'''The Grove''' (sometimes called "The Green") was a park at the northern end of the [[Morningside Heights campus]] located at street level directly across from [[Teachers College]]. It was part of Charles McKim's original campus plan. After years of development on the site beginning with [[Pupin Physics Laboratories]], and followed by [[Mudd]], [[Dodge Fitness Center]], [[Computer Science]] and [[Fairchild]] the park has ceased to exist. The last remaining fenced off patch of land at the corner of 120th St and Broadway behind [[Levien Gym]] and Pupin was excavated in March of [[2007]] to make way for the [[Northwest Science Building]].

Perhaps as a crude joke, the area between Schermerhorn, Fairchild, and Mudd is still referred to as "the Grove." However rather than being a park, it is the home to six dumpsters and emits a foul odor of decay; the University's garbage can.

Prior to development, the Grove stretched from behind [[Havemeyer]], [[Schermerhorn]] and the foundation of [[University Hall]] (now [[Uris Hall]]) all the way to 120th street.

The first proposed development of the grove came in 1898 when [[Seth Low]] commissioned the [[Grove Dormitories]] from [[McKim, Mead, and White]]. However, funds were never raised and the buildings were never built.

Eventually [[Wilde Observatory]] was constructed on the Northwest corner of the Grove, and the [[Great God Pan]] was installed in a fountain on the Northeast corner. The observatory would be demolished after being made redundant by [[Rutherfurd Observatory]] atop [[Pupin Physics Laboratories]], and the statue of Pan would be moved to the lawn in front of [[Lewisohn Hall]] to make way for [[Mudd Hall]].

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Wilde Observatory

2010-10-14T16:17:37Z

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[[Image:WildeObservatory.png|thumb|240px|Wilde Observatory, with Teachers College in the background]]
The '''Wilde Astronomical Observatory''' was a tiny ground level observatory built for the Astronomy Department in 1906-1907<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=w24MAAAAYAAJ The Annual Report of the President and Treasurer to the Trustees] for the year ending June 30, 1907 makes note of the "recently installed and equipped" observatory on page 80</ref> on the northwest corner of [[the Grove]], standing where the [[Northwest Science Building]] is being built. It would be demolished sometime after [[Pupin Physics Laboratories]] was built, as its function was replaced by the [[Rutherfurd Observatory]] on the roof of Pupin.

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Pupin Physics Laboratories

2010-10-14T16:16:49Z

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[[Image:Pupin.jpg|thumb|240px|Pupin Hall before the construction of the [[Northwest Corner Building]], with a majestic view of the gothic spires of [[Union Theological Seminary]] and [[Riverside Church]] off to the left]]

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'''Pupin Physics Laboratories''', also known as '''Pupin Hall''' (pronounced "Pyoo-pin," not "Poo-pin") is home to the [[Physics Department]] and a National Historic Landmark. It was built in [[1925]]-[[1927]] to provide more space for the [[Physics Department]] which had originally been housed in [[Fayerweather Hall]], and named for Serbian physicist [[Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin]] CC 1883 after his death in [[1935]].

==Advances in research==

The building is a landmark due to the advances in nuclear research made there during the [[Manhattan Project]] to develop the first nuclear weapon. It is connected to the university [[tunnels]], from which one can occasionally access the Manhattan Project's leftover cyclotron and other historic research facilities. Sadly, many of these have been sealed off since the 1980s, when [[Ken Hechtman]] wrought havoc with nuclear materials he stole from Pupin's basement.

Other discoveries and breakthroughs achieved in Pupin include:
*The discovery of deuterium by [[Harold Urey]]
*The investigation of neutron phenomena by [[George Peagram]]
*The construction of one of the country's first cyclotrons (it remains in the basement)
*[[January 25]], [[1939]]: the first splitting of a uranium atom in the United States, by [[Enrico Fermi]]

==Features and layout quirks==

The current entrance to Pupin is on the 5th floor from the plaza above [[Dodge Physical Fitness Center]]. This means that many of the seminar rooms in Pupin on floors 2-4, while above ground, are below campus level and, therefore, windowless - a bad place to have to sit through a [[discussion section]]. The original entryway was on the first floor from [[The Grove|the Grove]], but got blocked by the construction of [[Marcellus Hartley Dodge Physical Fitness Center|Dodge]] in the 1960's. The entryway smells like chlorine because [[Uris Pool]] has an exit stairway leading into Pupin's entry for some reason.

The [[Rutherfurd Observatory]] is on top of Pupin, which is convenient for the [[Astronomy Department]] professors who also work in Pupin. Unfortunately, the night sky in New York is too bright for it to be used for a lot of astronomical research. Nevertheless, the Astronomy Department hosts bi-monthly [http://www.astro.columbia.edu/outreach/ Public Observing Nights].

Skybridges connect the building to [[CEPSR]] and the [[Northwest Corner Building]]. Although most people who use them have card access, some who do not have found themselves trapped between doors that lock automatically. Try not to be in this situation.

==External link==
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/40045986@N00/3092469465/ Photo of Pupin under construction]

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Pupin Physics Laboratories

2010-10-14T16:16:06Z

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[[Image:Pupin.jpg|thumb|240px|Pupin Hall before the construction of the [[Northwest Corner Building]], with a majestic view of the gothic spires of [[Union Theological Seminary]] and [[Riverside Church]] off to the left]]

{{wp-also2|Pupin Hall}}

'''Pupin Physics Laboratories''', also known as '''Pupin Hall''' (pronounced "Pyoo-pin," not "Poo-pin") is home to the [[Physics Department]] and a National Historic Landmark. It was built in [[1925]]-[[1927]] to provide more space for the [[Physics Department]] which had originally been housed in [[Fayerweather Hall]], and named for Serbian physicist [[Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin]] CC 1883 after his death in [[1935]].

==Advances in research==

The building is a landmark due to the advances in nuclear research made there during the [[Manhattan Project]] to develop the first nuclear weapon. It is connected to the university [[tunnels]], from which one can occasionally access the Manhattan Project's leftover cyclotron and other historic research facilities. Sadly, many of these have been sealed off since the 1980s, when [[Ken Hechtman]] wrought havoc with nuclear materials he stole from Pupin's basement.

Other discoveries and breakthroughs achieved in Pupin include:
*The discovery of deuterium by [[Harold Urey]]
*The investigation of neutron phenomena by [[George Peagram]]
*The construction of one of the country's first cyclotrons (it remains in the basement)
*[[January 25]], [[1939]]: the first splitting of a uranium atom in the United States, by [[Enrico Fermi]]

==Features and layout quirks==

The current entrance to Pupin is on the 5th floor from the plaza above [[Dodge Physical Fitness Center]]. This means that many of the seminar rooms in Pupin on floors 2-4, while above ground, are below campus level and, therefore, windowless - a bad place to have to sit through a [[discussion section]]. The original entryway was on the first floor from [[The Grove|the Grove]], but got blocked by the construction of [[Marcellus Hartley Dodge Physical Fitness Center|Dodge]] in the 1960's. The entryway smells like chlorine because [[Uris Pool]] has an exit stairway leading into Pupin's entry for some reason.

The [[Rutherfurd Observatory]] is on top of Pupin, which is convenient for the [[Astronomy Department]] professors who also work in Pupin. Unfortunately, the night sky in New York is sometimes too bright for it to be used. Instead, astronomy types have to head to the [[Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory]]. Nevertheless, the Astronomy Department hosts bi-monthly [http://www.astro.columbia.edu/outreach/ Public Observing Nights].

Skybridges connect the building to [[CEPSR]] and the [[Northwest Corner Building]]. Although most people who use them have card access, some who do not have found themselves trapped between doors that lock automatically. Try not to be in this situation.

==External link==
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/40045986@N00/3092469465/ Photo of Pupin under construction]

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Rutherfurd Observatory

2010-10-14T16:00:58Z

Movetorutherfurd: moved Rutherford Observatory to Rutherfurd Observatory: Misspelling.

[[Image:10 07 16.JPEG|thumb|right|The Rutherford Observatory]]

The '''Rutherfurd Observatory''' is the astronomy observatory atop of [[Pupin Physics Laboratories]]. It is named after Lewis Morris Rutherfurd, an astronomer and [[trustee]] from 1858 to 1884. It effectively replaced [[Wilde Observatory]].

The Astronomy Department hosts periodic "Open Nights" during the school year when the roof-top observatory is open to the public to view the stars.[http://www.astro.columbia.edu/outreach/]

Since the construction of the [[Northwest Corner Building|Northwest Science Building]], the observatory has been partially blocked causing the university to look into putting one atop a different building.

==Inside the observatory==
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Rutherford Observatory

2010-10-14T16:00:58Z

Movetorutherfurd: moved Rutherford Observatory to Rutherfurd Observatory: Misspelling.

#REDIRECT [[Rutherfurd Observatory]]