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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.”

The particle physics laboratory makes a Spanish connection.

In honor of Fermilab’s upcoming 50th birthday, Symmetry presents physics birthday cards.

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.

The world’s largest liquid-argon neutrino detector, ICARUS, is about to make its way from CERN to Fermilab to begin its new mission: hunting for a previously undetected fourth type of neutrino.

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

The 50-foot-wide superconducting electromagnet at the center of the experiment saw its first beam of muon particles from Fermilab’s accelerators, kicking off a three-year effort to measure just what happens to those particles when placed in a stunningly precise magnetic field. The answer could rewrite scientists’ picture of the universe and how it works.

How did the proton, photon and other particles get their names?

We’re turning 50! There are several ways to celebrate with Fermilab on June 15 – and prizes for a few lucky participants.