Fermilab's Greatest Hits: Highlights from the First 50 Years

Outgoing Secretary of Defense who spent time at Fermilab's theoretical physics department.

Facility in Tennessee where some of Fermilab's early technicians received training.

Soviet research institute in Dubna that collaborated with Fermilab on early experiments.

A device used to detect charged particles by observing the trails of bubbles they leave in superheated liquid hydrogen; crucial for early Fermilab experiments.

Residential academy established with Fermilab's help to improve science education, with students participating in internships at Fermilab.

A cancer treatment method using protons, developed with compact synchrotrons built by Fermilab colleagues for hospitals.

Colleague at Fermilab who initiated the development of supercomputers using microprocessors.

Material used in detectors, with properties suitable for responding to electromagnetic radiation.

Deputy to Bob Wilson at Fermilab, co-authored the laboratory's statement on human rights.

Designed and implemented the Tevatron machine.

Medical application of accelerators, specifically using neutron beams for soft tissue cancers.

Particles studied in the KTeV experiment, which revealed subtle differences between matter and antimatter behavior.

Another major collaboration and detector at the Tevatron, involved in the discovery of the top quark.

Former director of Fermilab known for stating that Fermilab makes things that work.

Speaker, physicist, and leader of Fermilab's theoretical physics department.

The second stage of Fermilab's particle acceleration chain, named for its straight-line structure.

Soviet leader during the early 1970s who encouraged superpower cooperation in particle physics.

A historical French monastery that served as an architectural inspiration for Wilson Hall at Fermilab.

A Gothic cathedral in France that fascinated Bob Wilson for its historical construction and collapses, influencing his approach to building.

Advanced detector technology enabling precise localization of charged particles, crucial for studying short-lived particles.

Facility at Fermilab that generated and stored antiprotons for the Tevatron collider.

A dense metal, used as a reference for the weight of a top quark.

Daycare facility at Fermilab, established in 1980, providing care for employees' children.

An experiment at Fermilab aimed at detecting dark matter.

A later neutrino experiment at Fermilab with a large collaboration.

A property of muons being precisely measured in an experiment at Fermilab.

The third stage of Fermilab's acceleration, increasing proton energy to around 8 billion electron volts.

Institution that provided a bubble chamber to Fermilab for early experiments.

Particles detected in the experiment that led to the discovery of the bottom quark.

A large refrigerator system required to maintain the extremely low temperatures needed for superconducting magnets in the Tevatron.

A large bubble chamber used at Fermilab for neutrino physics research, providing crucial data on weak interactions.

A heavy particle, friend of the electron, produced when a tau neutrino interacts.

Located in the SNOLAB mine in Minnesota, this detector is a key part of Fermilab's ongoing neutrino oscillation research.

An educational program at Fermilab started in the early 1980s, offering lectures and tours to high school students.

A type of weak interaction discovered using neutrino experiments at Fermilab in 1973.

An experiment at Fermilab that used photographic emulsions and scintillating fibers to directly observe tau neutrinos.

Small satellite galaxies of larger galaxies, discovered through astronomical surveys.

Fundamental constituents of matter, the study of which was informed by the discovery of bottom quarks.

Advanced magnets used in the Tevatron that allow for much higher magnetic fields and greater particle energies.

In charge of manufacturing magnets and other components for the Tevatron.

Particles made of the fourth quark, studied in experiments at Fermilab.

A method of theoretical computing used to solve the theory of strong interactions, advanced by specialized machines at Fermilab.

One of the major collaborations and detectors at the Tevatron, crucial for the discovery of the top quark.

The first approved experiment at Fermilab, a neutrino experiment focused on probing the proton and weak interactions.

A crucial component of Fermilab's accelerator complex, upgraded to handle higher beam intensities for collider and neutrino experiments.

An early type of particle accelerator, reincarnated as the first stage of Fermilab's accelerator.

Community and Fermilab member organization dedicated to preserving and enjoying the natural features of the laboratory site.

A large cosmic ray observatory in Argentina, with significant Fermilab participation, that measures ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.

Experiments at Fermilab focused on studying muons, including their magnetic moment and rare decay processes.

Location in the Soviet Union that previously held the world record for proton acceleration energy.

Fermilab colleague known as 'Mr. Freeze' for his demonstrations with liquid nitrogen.

Early, large storage devices used at Fermilab, with a capacity equivalent to a single talk's PDF file.

Efforts at Fermilab to restore the land to its native prairie condition, using controlled fires to manage vegetation.

Journal for which the speaker wrote an article about the top quark discovery.

A large-scale astronomical survey where Fermilab participated, providing data on supernovae and galactic structures.

Director of Fermilab and co-author of the proposal for the bottom quark discovery.

A superconducting substance used in the magnets for the Tevatron.

Key figure in the development of the Tevatron magnets.

A large, robust computer used at Fermilab, described as capable of withstanding a howitzer hit.

Experiment at Fermilab that studied kaons to understand CP violation.