The City College Physics Department is located in a 13-story Physical Science and Physical Education Building, named after Robert E. Marshak, a physicist and former City College president. The physics department occupies three complete floors (about 70,000 square feet), containing seminar rooms, faculty and graduate student offices, shops and computer centers, as well as research laboratories.
Except for the planetarium, which our department operates, the remaining ten floors of the building are occupied by other science departments, allowing physics faculty members easy contact with chemists, earth and atmospheric scientists, and biomedical researchers.
The science building also houses the Department of Physical and Health Education, enabling physics students to use the gym's indoor track, weight room, basketball courts and Olympic-sized swimming pool when they wish to take a break from physics.