Main Ring Period: The Darkest-Tumed-Happiest Days at Fermilab

摘要

It was the spring of 1967. The scene was a vast stretch of cornfields that were at one time the Illinois prairie, where many bison roamed. There stood the newly elected director of National Accelerator Laboratory, Bob Wilson. Born in Frontier, Wyoming, Wilson was filled with a pioneering spirit, both in science and humanity. He stood there with a vision of a 200-billion-electronvolt proton synchrotron, the world's largest particle accelerator, up and running there in less than five years, a task that he was going to accomplish with a budget of $250 million.