What is Fermilab?
{{complex|date=September 2023}} {{Infobox laboratory |name = Fermilab |motto = |image = [[File:High Rise at Fermilab.jpg|200px]] |established = November 21, 1967 (as National Accelerator Laboratory) |type = [[Nuclear physics|Nuclear]] |budget = |debt = |research_field = [[Particle physics]] |rector = |chancellor = |president = |vice-president = |provost = |principal = |vice_chancellor= |dean = |director = [[Piermaria J. Oddone]] |head = |faculty = |staff = |students = |undergrad = |postgrad = |doctoral = |profess = |alumni = |city = [[Winfield Township, DuPage County, Illinois|Winfield Township, DuPage County]] / [[Batavia Township, Kane County, Illinois|Batavia Township, Kane County]], near [[Batavia, Illinois|Batavia]], [[Illinois]], [[USA]] |address = P.O. Box 500 |telephone = (630) 840 3000 |campus = |free = |sports = |colours = |nickname = |affiliations = [[United States Department of Energy|US Department of Energy]]<br>[[University of Chicago]]<br>[[Universities Research Association]] |operating_agency = |nobel_laureates = [[Leon Lederman]] |website = [http://www.fnal.gov fnal.gov] |logo = |footnotes = }} [[Image:Fermilab satellite.gif|thumb|left|200px|A satellite view of Fermilab. The two circular structures are the Main Injector Ring (small) and [[Tevatron]] (big).]] '''Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory''' ('''Fermilab'''), just outside [[Batavia, Illinois|Batavia]], [[Illinois]], near [[Chicago]], is a [[United States Department of Energy|US Department of Energy]] [[United States Department of Energy National Labs|national laboratory]] specializing in high-energy [[particle physics]]. As of January 1, 2007, Fermilab is operated by the [[Fermi Research Alliance]], a joint venture of th