Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Office of the Director.
Robert R. Wilson records, 1936-[ongoing].
The bulk of the collection (1967-1978) consists of administrative files of correspondence and memoranda, subject files, minutes and reports, and other materials related to Wilson's responsibilities as Director of Fermilab. The collection spans the design of the Laboratory from 1967 through plans for the Energy Doubler and Tevatron, including congressional hearing testimony, technical studies, experimental area designs, organizational meeting minutes, experimental program papers, logbooks and operations histories, files and reports on the construction and commissioning of the main ring, personnel files, and public-information clippings; Laboratory project files on theoretical physics and international collaborations; Laboratory newspapers and scientific and technical publications; users facilities, business services, conferences at Fermilab; cancer therapy projects; radiation safety and environmental health, proposals and design reports; agency correspondence and reviews from Atomic Energy Commission, Energy Research and Development Administration, and Department of Energy, early maps and drawings related to the site and its structures; photographs, files and audio tapes on miscellaneous activities of laboratory life. Research Division files from 1969 to 1978.
Wilson was the founding Director of Fermilab, bringing together the ideas of Ernest O. Lawrence from his Berkeley days, and Enrico Fermi and J. Robert Oppenheimer from his Los Alamos period, with those of his colleagues at Cornell's Laboratory of Nuclear Studies, to the frontier laboratory at Batavia, Illinois in 1967. He designed the National Accelerator Laboratory (renamed Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in 1974) technically, physically, and culturally. He shaped Fermilab as it developed from a 200 GeV proton accelerator in March of 1972 into the 400 GeV proton accelerator nine months later, meeting the demands of hundreds of international users in a uniquely democratic style. After resigning from the Laboratory in 1978, Wilson remained on the faculty of the University of Chicago and in 1980 he moved to Columbia University. In 1982 he returned to Cornell where he now is Professor Emeritus. Director-Emeritus since 1978, he continues to advise Fermilab on the development of its site and architecture.
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory -- Administration.
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory -- Congresses.
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory -- Management.
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory -- Officials and employees.
United States. Department of Energy fast
Accelerators -- Design and construction.
Cancer -- Treatment.
Group work in research.
Hot laboratories -- United States -- Illinois -- Batavia.
Legislative hearings -- United States.
Physical laboratories.
Nuclear energy -- Research -- Laboratories.
Nuclear facilities -- Rules and practice.
Nuclear physics -- International cooperation.
Nuclear physics -- Publishing.
Nuclear physics -- Research.
Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Research. aip
Physical laboratories.
Physics -- Congresses.
Radiation -- Safety measures -- Research.
Storage rings
Sound recordings lcgft
Blueprints. aat
Clippings. aat aat aat
Drawings. aat aat
Cadastral maps. aat
Minutes. aat
Reports. aat
Reviews. aat
Personnel records. aat
Photographs. aat
Testimony. aat
Fermilab tevatron. phys-t
Wilson, Robert R., 1914-2000-
National Accelerator Laboratory.
United States. Energy Research and Development Administration.
Cornell University Archival resources.
Cornell University. Laboratory of Nuclear Studies.
AIP-ICOS
Fermilab. Milton G. White History of Accelerators Room (WH-3SE) and Archives (WH-16NE. PO Box 500, Batavia, IL 90510, USA