50th anniversary

In 1990, Penny Kasper, Danying Yi and I were all graduate students on the E791 experiment.

Way back when, I was in the Materials Supply Group, I was in charge of looking through lists of equipment that laboratories and government facilities had placed in excess.

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

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.

From WTTW’s Chicago Tonight, June 19, 2017: Director Nigel Lockyer and physicists Patricia McBride and Herman White appear in this six-minute segment on Fermilab’s leading role in particle physics, including neutrino research.

Fermilab celebrates 50 years of discovery.

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

From Daily Herald, June 15, 2017: The Daily Herald publishes a collection of Fermilab-related photos in celebration of the lab’s 50-year anniversary.

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.”