From Naperville Community Television, Sept. 23, 2017: With plenty to see and do, everyone was busy with interactive demonstrations, family-friendly experiments, and even special shows with Mr. Freeze. View NCT’s two-minute video.
50th anniversary
From The Beacon-News, Sept. 23, 2017: Batavia’s Fermilab celebrated its 50th anniversary Saturday by holding the biggest open house it’s had in two decades.
On Sept. 23, thousands of visitors flocked to Fermilab for a community open house, celebrating the laboratory’s 50th anniversary.
To celebrate a half-century of discovery, Fermilab has been gathering tales of life at the lab.
Dr. Betz was known, at Fermilab, for creating and overseeing the prairie planting project.
In the 1990s, Tim Meyer was a summer research student at Fermilab. He recalls how he called the lab with a critical, career-cementing question before his first day of work.
In past September months, lab employees moved to Weston, Colorado bison moved to Illinois, and Nigel Lockyer moved to the United States.
We don’t mess around with paint color at Fermilab.
I used to feed the bison back in the day. We used to have two herds. One was where the current herd lives now, and the other was across the street.
It was in August 1972 that Fermilab published its first experimental results.