Fermilab features

July brought Fermilab three new directors, two discovery announcements and one big, red ring.

Scientists at Fermilab and the University of Chicago are planning to search for hypothesized invisible particles using cutting-edge quantum sensor technology.

Government officials in Washington, D.C., wish Fermilab a happy 50th birthday.

Twenty-five years ago this month, Fermilab stood up its first website — one of the earliest websites in the United States.

The partnership is expected to advance a wide range of science, including medicine and energy.

Fermilab and the field of particle physics were pioneers of electronic communication.

The list covers 50 important particle physics measurements, advances in accelerator science, astrophysics discoveries, theoretical physics papers, game-changing computing developments and more.

In the early 1970s, many of us were working lots of overtime, about 12-hour days. One day, I’d just gotten home when I got a phone call: “We need your help.”

It was in the 1990s that John saw a big white tanker trailer used for liquid-nitrogen parked next to the A-1 service building on Main Ring Road.

It was in June that National Accelerator Laboratory employees first showed up to work and that Leon Lederman became the lab’s second director.