Images: Fermilab's 50th anniversary
Posted June 15, 2017 1:00 am
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is celebrating 50 years. Fermilab was established near Batavia, Ill. in 1967 and is a Department of Energy national laboratory dedicated to particle physics research.
Enrico Fermi, Nobel Prize winner.
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Wilson Hall is reflected in a pond at the Fermi National Acceleratory Laboratory campus in Batavia.
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This aerial view shows the signature Wilson Hall on the campus of Fermi National Accelertor Labaratory in Batavia. On Thursday, the laboratory is marking its 50th anniversary.
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Fermilab's Main Ring in 1981.
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A long row of power poles on the Fermi National Acceleratory Laboratory (Fermilab) campus in Batavia. They were designed by the lab's first director, Robert Wilson, to resemble the symbol for pi.
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A sign announcing it's 50th anniversary is posted near a prairie on the Fermi National Acceleratory Laboratory campus in Batavia.
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A bicyclist stops near Wilson Hall at the Fermi National Acceleratory Laboratory in Batavia.
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A Forster's Tern turns his head upside down as he shakes water off after diving into a pond near Wilson Hall on the Fermi Lab campus in Batavia.
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Enrico Fermi, Nobel Prize winner.
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Double-Crested Cormorants perch over one of the ponds near Wilson Hall at Fermilab in Batavia. According to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, "The Double-Crested Cormorant is the most numerous and widespread North American cormorant. It's also the only one that occurs in large numbers inland as well as on the coast. Growing in numbers throughout its range, this cormorant is increasingly being blamed for declines in sport fisheries and for devastating fish farms." They range in size from 28-35 inches with a wingspan of 45-48 inches.
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The Tractricious sculpture, designed by Fermilab founding director Robert Wilson, sits in front of the Industrial Complex at Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia. It is comprised of 16 stainless steel outer tubes that were made from scrap cryostat tubes from the Tevatron magnets and 16 inner pipes from old well casings.
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Wilson Hall, under construction in 1973.
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Fermilab's first director, Robert Wilson, at the ground-breaking ceremony in 1969 for the Main Ring.
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The Fermilab's original magnets in the Main Ring, when it was being built in 1970.
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