In the 1970s, interesting shapes and striking colors were the order of the day at Fermilab. Bob Sheldon saw an opportunity when one of the outlying buildings on the site, which was to be a support facility for a large particle detector, needed a roof.
Robert Wilson was a man born out of his time. He lived in America from 1914 to 2000, but he really belonged to the central Italy of the 1500s. One ever-present reminder of this is the sculpture that sits in the reflecting pond in front of Wilson Hall.
A furry critter and its four-mile trek through an accelerator pipe comes to the lab’s rescue in its early days.
A story of the fate of some walnut trees on the laboratory site in 1979 takes us inside the Wilson Hall stairways.