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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), physical science research center located near Batavia, Ill., est. 1968 as the National Accelerator Laboratory, renamed 1974 in honor of Enrico Fermi . It was built on the site of the former village of Weston. Universities Research Association operates it under contract to the U.S. Dept. of Energy. Work at Fermilab is devoted to the study of elementary particles , principally through the use of the Tevatron, a synchrotron particle accelerator completed in 1983 that is capable of accelerating protons and antiprotons up to energies of 980... Read more
National Laboratories
...Although the national laboratory system traces its...laboratories, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory, abandoned military...additional three national laboratories created...x2014;Brookhaven National Laboratory, Fermi Nation al ... Read more
Fermi, Enrico
...the prize in Sweden, Fermi and his Jewish wife...atom in early 1939, Fermi was recruited to join...project's metallurgical laboratory at the University of...project facilities. Fermi became a naturalized...of a hydrogen bomb. Fermi moved into new areas...including cosmic rays (the ... Read more

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