This collection of various historical materials collected by the Columbia University Physics Department includes photographs and negatives of faculty members, faculty biographical information, images of related buildings and grounds, correspondence between faculty members and others, publications, information concerning guest lecturers in the department, as well as materials used in exhibitions and presentations depicting the department's history.
Papers of the Columbia University Nobel prize winning physicist (1988) for his part in the discovery, along with with Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger, of the muon neutrino.