Physics – History and Philosophy of Physics
Scientific paper
2011-10-03
Phys.Perspect.5:67-86,2004
Physics
History and Philosophy of Physics
Scientific paper
10.1007/s000160300003
This paper examines the roles of vision and leadership in creating and directing Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory from the late 1960s through the 1980s. The story divides into two administrations having different problems and accomplishments, that of Robert R. Wilson (1967-1978), which saw the transformation from cornfield to frontier physics facility, and that of Leon Max Lederman (1979-1989), in which the laboratory evolved into one of the world's major high-energy facilities. Lederman's pragmatic vision of a user-based experimental community helped him to convert the pioneering facility that Wilson had built frugally into a laboratory with a stable scientific, cultural, and funding environment.
Hoddeson Lillian H.
Kolb Adrienne W.
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