Highlights and Milestones
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Milestones
- 1962: Contract execution and start of accelerator
construction
- 1966: Construction completed and research begins
- 1967: 20-GeV electron beam achieved
- 1968: First evidence discovered for quarks
- 1972: SPEAR operations begin
- 1973: Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Project (SSRP)
started
- 1974: Discovery of psi particle
- 1976: Discovery of charm quark and tau lepton
- 1976: Nobel Prize shared by SLAC's Burton Richter
for the J/psi discovery
- 1977: SSRP becomes Stanford Synchrotron Radiation
Laboratory (SSRL)
- 1980: PEP operations begin
- 1982: Wolf Prize awarded to SLAC's Martin Perl for
discovery of the tau lepton
- 1989: SLC operations begin, 50 GeV electron and
positron beams achieved
- 1990: Nobel Prize shared by SLAC's Richard Taylor
for first evidence that nucleons consist of quarks
- 1990: SPEAR becomes a dedicated synchrotron
radiation facility with its own independent injector.
- 1992: SSRL becomes a Division of SLAC
- 1993: Final Focus Test Beam facility constructed
- 1994: Initiation of the PEP-II project to build the
Asymmetric B Factory
- 1995: Nobel Prize in Physics shared by Martin Perl
for the discovery of the tau lepton.
- 1996: NLCTA project initiated
- 1997: First beam injected into B Factory
- 1998: First B Factory particle collision occurs
- 1999: First Events recorded by B Factory's BaBar
detector
- 2000: Joint NASA-Stanford GLAST project initiated,
Helen Quinn shares Dirac Medal
- 2002: SLAC celebrates 40th anniversary, LCLS project
approved
- 2003: Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and
Cosmology established
- 2004: SPEAR3 comes online
- 2005: SLAC reorganized, Sidney Drell receives Heinz Award for Public Policy
- 2006: Kavli Institute / University of Arizona / Florida
University discover evidence of dark matter
Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Roger Kornberg for work in RNA polymerase done,
in part, at SSRL
Ground broken and construction begun on Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS)
- 2007: SSRL's Molecular Observatory for Structural Molecular Biology at Beamline 12
dedicated
First use of new nano-scale experimental station at SSRL Beamline 5-2
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