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