Full Text of HR0051 100th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Located just outside Batavia, the Fermi National | 3 | | Accelerator Laboratory
("Fermilab") is a United States | 4 | | Department of Energy National Laboratory, specializing in high
| 5 | | energy particle physics; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Fermilab was founded in 1967 as the National | 7 | | Accelerator Laboratory; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Fermilab was renamed in 1974, in honor of Enrico | 9 | | Fermi, an Italian physicist who
created the world's first | 10 | | nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1, often called the | 11 | | "architect of the
nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic | 12 | | bomb"; and | 13 | | WHEREAS, Fermilab has been the premier particles | 14 | | laboratory in the United States, whose work on
the world's most | 15 | | advanced particle accelerators enables them to dig down to the | 16 | | smallest
building blocks of matter; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, The vision of Fermilab is to solve the mysteries | 18 | | of matter, energy, space, and time for the
benefit of all, | 19 | | striving to lead the world in neutrino science with particle | 20 | | accelerators, lead the
nation in the development of particle | 21 | | colliders and their use for scientific discovery, and advance
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| 1 | | particle physics through measurements of the cosmos; and | 2 | | WHEREAS, The mission of Fermilab is to drive discovery by | 3 | | building and operating world-leading
accelerator and detector | 4 | | facilities, performing pioneering research with national and | 5 | | global
partners, and developing new technologies for science | 6 | | that support U.S. industrial
competitiveness; and | 7 | | WHEREAS, The first director of the laboratory was Robert | 8 | | Rathbun Wilson, under whom the
laboratory opened ahead of time | 9 | | and under budget; and | 10 | | WHEREAS, Since Rathbun Wilson, there have been five other | 11 | | directors: Leon M. Lederman,
John Peoples, Michael S. | 12 | | Witherell, Piermaria Oddone, and currently, Nigel Lockyer; and | 13 | | WHEREAS, Since 2007, Fermilab has been operated by the | 14 | | Fermi Research Alliance, a joint
venture of the University of | 15 | | Chicago and the Universities Research Association, which is
| 16 | | composed of 89 research universities; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, Fermilab is part of the Illinois Technology & | 18 | | Research Corridor; and | 19 | | WHEREAS, Fermilab employs 1,750 scientists and engineers | 20 | | from around the world; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Fermilab collaborates with more than 20 countries | 2 | | on physics experiments based in
the United States and | 3 | | elsewhere; and | 4 | | WHEREAS, Fermilab's Tevatron was a landmark particle | 5 | | accelerator, and the fourth
largest particle accelerator in the | 6 | | world until it was shut down in 2011; and | 7 | | WHEREAS, Fermilab also hosts fixed target and neutrino | 8 | | experiments; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, The groundbreaking work done at Fermilab has led | 10 | | to the discoveries of the bottom
quark, top quark, and tau | 11 | | neutrino; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Fermilab hosts many cultural events,
including | 13 | | not only public science lectures and symposia, but also | 14 | | classical and contemporary
music concerts, folk dancing, and | 15 | | art galleries; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, The site continues to inspire the scientific minds | 17 | | of tomorrow by remaining open to
the public from dawn to dusk; | 18 | | therefore, be it
| 19 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE |
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| 1 | | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 2 | | commemorate the 50th
anniversary of the Fermi National | 3 | | Accelerator Laboratory and that we encourage Fermilab, the City | 4 | | of Batavia, and the State of Illinois to
continue to encourage | 5 | | the outstanding work and research that they conduct; and be it | 6 | | further
| 7 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 8 | | presented to Fermilab, the Fermi
Research Alliance at the | 9 | | University of Chicago, and the United States Department of | 10 | | Energy
Office of Science.
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