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Hechtman said that he and Bankoff stole the chemicals while on a late-night exploration of the university's tunnel network in early December. He said they entered a basement storage area in the Pupin physics building and discovered a number of chemicals on shelves...

Author: By Jacob Hill, | Title: Freshmen Punished for Stealing Uranium | 2/28/1987 | See Source »

Such famous figures as the scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla and Physicist Michael Pupin come to our memory. So do the names of the violinist and philanthropist Zlatko Balokovic, one of the founders and chairman of the Society of Friends of New Yugoslavia in the U.S.; of Louis Adamic, the author and publicist; Ivan Mestrovic, great genius of sculpture; and many others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Message to America from Yugoslavia's President Josip Broz Tito | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

...white-haired professor perched on a small stool, his feet hooked in the lower rung, his hands extracting scrawled lecture notes from a manila envelope. Isidor Isaac Rabi (rhymes with Bobby) gazed stolidly up at his 30 selected students in Columbia University's tiered, 286-seat Pupin physics lecture hall. His eyes suddenly wrinkled with laughter, self-inspired by a quick quip; then his voice turned passionate as he summed up his lifetime concern that science "should be the foundation for the community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Time to Leave the House | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

...such distinguished visitors as the future Edward VII. an inspection of Cooper Union was a must. As the years went by, everyone from Mark Twain to Woodrow Wilson to Bertrand Russell lectured there. The Union gave Inventor Michael Pupin his start in life; it trained Sculptor Saint-Gaudens. Its library was the favorite haunt of an immigrant boy named Felix Frankfurter. "It was the place." said Frankfurter later, "that first stretched my mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Emancipator | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

...graduation in fine arts, graphic arts and architecture. Three evenings a week there were public lectures in the Great Hall on subjects ranging from atomic fission to Indonesian dances. Among the Union's eminent alumni had been Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Labor Leader Samuel Gompers, Scientist-Inventor Michael Pupin. Moreover, Cooper Union had served as inspiration for a number of privately endowed technical schools (e.g., Chicago's Armour Institute of Technology) across the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Free of Charge | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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