Although the Large Hadron Collider of CERN officially announced the “probable” discovery of the Higgs Boson, credit must be given to where it’s due. Fermilab’s experiments at its Tevatron, the CDF and DZero, were racing CERN to find the Higgs Boson  - and the race was close all the way up to the announcement. Regardless of who discovered the particle, Fermilab greatly aided the search for the elusive particle and Fermilab physicists’ direct work lead to its discovery. Continue reading here.

An inside look a Fermilab's Tevatron, the particle accelerator that discovered the top quark in 1995 and was at one time, the center of the particle physics world.