title: Adrienne Kolb
text: # Adrienne Kolb
  
  Adrienne W. Kolb is an American historian of science who worked for many years as the archivist and historian at Fermilab.
  
  ## Education and career
  
  Kolb studied history at the University of New Orleans, graduating in 1972. She came to Fermilab as an assistant to Lillian Hoddeson in 1983, and retired in 2015.
  
  ## Books
  
  With Hoddeson and Catherine Westfall, Kolb is the coauthor of the book Fermilab: Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience (University of Chicago Press, 2008).
  
  With Hoddeson and Michael Riordan, Kolb is the coauthor of Tunnel Visions: The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider (University of Chicago Press, 2015).
  
  ## Personal life
  
  Kolb is married to Edward ("Rocky") Kolb, a professor of physics at the University of Chicago.
  
  