Indiana Dedicates Physics Annex

A new wing has recently been added to Swain Hall, the home of the Physics Department at Indiana University. On November 21 and 22, 1961, the University celebrated the formal opening of the structure with a dedicatory conference attended by sixty physicists from various parts of the country. All had at one time or another received advanced degrees from the Indiana University Physics Department. One of the invited speakers at the conference was Atomic Energy Commissioner Leland J. Haworth, who received his BA in 1925, his AM in 1926, and an honorary DSc in 1961. Another was Paul W. McDaniel, director of the AEC's Division of Research, who received his PhD from the University in 1941. Nineteen of the University's former graduate students in physics presented contributed papers on topics associated with their current interests in physics.