In honor of Fermilab’s upcoming 50th birthday, Symmetry presents physics birthday cards.
50th anniversary
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.
We’re turning 50! There are several ways to celebrate with Fermilab on June 15 – and prizes for a few lucky participants.
How many times must one iterate on a magnet-spool design? Until Dr. Wilson is happy.
From CERN Courier, May 19, 2017: Former Fermilab archivist and historian Adrienne Kolb recounts how, 50 years ago, U.S. physicists established a new laboratory and with it a new approach to carrying out frontier research in high-energy physics.
When I first started out here, in 1970, I worked with the farm crew.
It was in May that the lab received the name Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, during a dedication attended by Laura Fermi.
I was about to leave one of the lab’s service buildings when in came someone like a streak of lightning.
As a summer student, it was fun to go exploring different lab buildings and rooms.