Robert Wilson

From APS Physics, April 2018: Over the last five decades, Fermilab scientists have made some of the most fundamental discoveries in particle physics. But the facility may never have been built had a handful of physicists — chief among them the lab’s first director, Robert R. Wilson — not convinced the U.S. Congress of the project’s value.

My first year at Fermilab was 1968. Our crew worked closely with Wilson. He was charismatic, friendly and outgoing.