@Science_George@mastodon.world
2026-07-15 14:01 UTC
He found the answers to some of those questions himself during his quite impressive career.
He discovered the muon neutrino back in 1962 when he was at Brookhaven National Laboratory, but regretted that facility wasn't all he imagined it could be - which inspired an idea.
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@Science_George@mastodon.world 2026-07-15 14:02
The following year he proposed the concept for a grand National Accelerator Laboratory - a facility that was not only developed to great success (and eleven years later would be renamed Fermilab), but one he would eventually become the longest-serving Director of years later. 3/