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The importance of archives

23 Apr 2019
Taken from the April 2019 issue of Physics World.

Valerie Higgins says that the contributions of support staff should not be forgotten when it comes to celebrating scientific breakthroughs

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Hidden skills: Fermilab secretary Barb Rozic solders an electronic circuit board in 1970. (Courtesy: Fermilab)
Modern scientific research, especially physics, is often conducted using complex machines that take

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Valerie Higgins is an archivist and historian based at Fermilab, e-mail vhiggins@fnal.gov
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