beamjockey (beamjockey) wrote,
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Thirty-Five Years before the Beamline

Anniversary yesterday: On 23 September 1978, I joined Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory as an engineering physicist in the Neutrino Department.

So far, it's going well.



W. Skeffington Higgins. Detail from 1978 staff and faculty photo of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University. Death ray by Tullio Proni of Isher Enterprises, on loan from the collection of Mark Hyde.
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