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The main entrance is on Farnsworth Avenue (Kirk Road) and Pine Street.
Batavia, IL 60510-0500
630/840-5588
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| With a free entry ticket to Fermilab's Wilson Hall, you can explore the world of quantum mechanics. |
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| Hours of Operation: Open daily 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. |
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Fermilab operates the world's highest-energy particle accelerator, the Tevatron, and the world's only hadron collider. (Hadrons are subatomic particles made up of quarks. Quarks, along with leptons, are the elementary particles of matter.) The scientific research conducted here has involved not only dramatic discoveries, such as that of the sixth, and possibly last, quark, but also important engineering applications, such as the effect of strong bursts of electromagnetic energy on missile guidance systems. Visitors can take a self-guided tour of the lab (Robert Rathbun Wilson Hall) which has one of the world's largest atriums.
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Who Made It: The construction team was known as DUSAF, a joint venture of DMJM, architects and engineers, Los Angeles; the office of Max O. Urbahn, architects, New York; Seelye, Stevenson, Value & Knecht, consulting engineers, New York; and the George A. Fuller Company, contractors, New York.
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| Photo Credit: Courtesy Fermilab |
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