A hit and a miss: in 1987, FERMINEWS reported support in Washington for the SSC; in 1993, the news was John Peoples' appointment to terminate the SSC.

Fermilab's Greatest Hits (1978-2004)

by Mike Perricone

Fermilab has a history of making history, and FERMINEWS has been there to tell the story since 1978. Whether in discovery—the top quark announcement in 1995—or disappointment—losing out on the Superconducting Super Collider in 1988—FERMINEWS has brought its readers a record of events with steadily growing renown for its standards of writing and reporting.

But there would be no news without the science, and no history without the work of the thousands of researchers who have made the lab the world's focus in particle physics for the 26 years of FERMINEWS's run. Here are many of the lab's greatest hits chronicled in these pages since 1978:

• Leon Lederman appointed director—October 19, 1978
• Commissioning of Doubler (Tevatron)—July 5, 1983
• Groundbreaking for Antiproton Source—August 16, 1983
• Doubler (Tevatron) hits 800 GeV—February 16, 1984
• First 1.6 TeV Proton-Antiproton Collisions at CDF—October 13, 1985
• Leon Lederman wins Nobel Prize—October 19, 1988
• John Peoples appointed director—April 19, 1989
• Norman F. Ramsey wins Nobel Prize—October 12, 1989
• First website established—June, 1992 (ties for 2nd in U.S. with MIT, behind No. 1 SLAC)
• John Peoples named to direct SSC shutdown—November 12, 1993
• Discovery of Top Quark announced—March 2, 1995
• Signing of $531 million LHC agreement—December 8, 1997
• First light of SDSS—May 9, 1998
• Michael Witherell appointed director—March 5, 1999
• KTeV announces new result for E'/E—March 19, 1999
• Commissioning of Main Injector—April 28, 1999
• Discovery of tau neutrino—July 20, 2000
• Death of Robert Rathbun Wilson—January 16, 2001
• Collider Run II begins—March 1, 2001
• First cosmic ray events at Pierre Auger Observatory—June 8, 2001
• KTeV announces new result for sin²Ø_w—October 26, 2001
• First MiniBooNE events—September 12, 2002
• First MINOS data—August 14, 2003
• CDMS sets most sensitive dark matter limits—May 3, 2004
• First Fermilab magnet shipped to LHC—May 11, 2004

What's next? The stories of the next few years:

Neutrinos

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