MIT Building 35 Metals Processing construction (John Wulff)

Tom notes John Wulff built Building 35 after being exiled from physics to metallurgy. Brief institutional-history anchor.

John Wulff got kicked out of physics and was sent to the metallurgy department. He became a very notable metallurgist. The Metals Processing building, Building 35 — you look up at the top it says metals processing, eaten away, I've been concrete on the outside — John Wulff built that building. So the physicists at one time at MIT were actually engineers. Historically. Not anymore, not since Slater came in. He cleaned house. None of these people did anything practical — couldn't have that. That's the difference. I told you about the culture at Caltech versus MIT: the practical engineering. Caltech is the you-don't-ever-mix-industry-with-academia school.