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Discovery of the Electron
Joseph John Thomson discovers the electron using a cathode tube at the Cavendish laboratory in England. He later received the Nobel Prize in 1906 -
Founding
The labratory was founded on September 5, 1967 as the National Accelerator Labratory -
Arbor Day
Arbor day has been celebrated since 1969, and Fermilab also cares about wildlife. With there 6,800 acre land that study wildlife. -
Proton Beam from Preaccelerator
FermilabPhyisicst from Fermilab got a beam of protons from a preaccelerator. "The first and smallest of four cascaded accelerators which will comprise the complete 200 BeV accelerator" -
Fermilab makes a Beam Monitor System
The Monitoring system that measures the size, position, and intensity by an accelerator made by Fermilab. This helps control how much of a proton beam is needed. -
Kobayashi and Maskawa predict existence 3 different Quarks
Fermilab Discoveries
The first one they said would be the fourth quark, named the charm quark. They also predicted the exisitence of 2 other quarks, bottom and top quark. -
Renamed the Fermilab
It was renamed to Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab for short) in Honor of Enrico Fermi.Who was a physicist that developed the first nuclear reactor. -
Upsilon Discovery
A Group of scientist discover the upsilon particle, that contains a bottom quark and a anti-bottom quark -
Bottom Quark Discovery
FermilabWith the accelerator and the power of it, the bottom quark was discovered. Experiments were conducted in 1977 "with the 400 GeV Main Ring culminated in the discovery of the bottom quark" -
Proton - Anti-proton collision
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Tevatron produces the first proton and anti-proton collision. The Physicists at Fermilab are the first to observe this. -
Constructing Cosmic Ray Detectpr
Before people thought that cosmic rays come in different directions and times. Later in 2007 researchers discover that the most energetic rays come from the direction of active galactic nuclei. -
Tevatron is Shutdown
The tevatron accelerator was not producing new and good information. It was waisiting money and Fermi lab needs money. Fermilab had agreed on shuting down Tevatron