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Science & Medicine
Feb. 27, 2015
Scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced Tuesday that they have detected strong evidence of an elusive particle at the heart of all matter in the universe, providing the best proof yet of the hidden structure of the material world.
April 27, 1994
A Peruvian-born physicist was named the new director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia.
Nov. 21, 2004
Robert Rathbun Wilson, a nuclear physicist active in the Manhattan Project who later designed and directed the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) near Chicago, has died.
Jan. 21, 2000
Researchers at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have identified two new subatomic particles, called sigma-sub-b particles.
Nov. 18, 2006
World & Nation
A senior Soviet nuclear physicist defected to the United States on Christmas Eve and has been granted political asylum, Reagan Administration officials said Thursday.
Jan. 4, 1985
Let’s clear up a little $8.2-billion misunderstanding.
Aug. 6, 1992
Physicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago cranked up the country’s newest atom smasher Sunday and smacked matter against antimatter at record-breaking energies, a key step in mankind’s quest to understand nature.
Oct. 14, 1985
The European physics laboratory CERN may not have detected the long-sought subatomic particle known as the Higgs boson after all.
July 16, 2001
Europe’s top particle physics laboratory decided Wednesday to shut down the machine it was using to chase an elusive subatomic particle--the Higgs boson, more commonly called the god particle--which is believed to be key to understanding the makeup of the universe.
Nov. 9, 2000