Our 50th-anniversary year as come and gone, and those of you who participated in DIFF managed to take a picture at Fermilab every day of 2017.
50th anniversary
Back in the 1990s, the rules were different.
You have just a few weeks to make your mark on our 50th-anniversary online yearbook.
Former Fermilab Deputy Director Young-Kee Kim was once a CDF experiment postdoc who put her heart and soul into the particle detector. At one point, her tireless efforts brought her work to a brief, soporific standstill.
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In past Decembers the laboratory recognized the importance of its future site, the prairie and its buildings.
Sept. 30, 1979, about 1:45 p.m.: SNAP!! Gerd Hartner, in the bow of his canoe at the race starting position, dipped his paddle in the water, gave a mighty first pull and, to his astonishment, broke it in half.
Scientist Craig Moore talks about a small fix in an accelerator that paid big dividends for the Tevatron program in the 1990s.
When the power goes out, what’s our first priority?
Fermilab scientist Dmitri Denisov recalls how, during autumn months, DZero experimenters occasionally collided with critters seeking warmth in the underground areas by the detector.