Broken Symmetry (Batavia, Illinois)

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Broken Symmetry towers 50 feet above the Lab's west entrance. Wilson designed the 212-ton (42,000-pound) structure, which was built in the Lab's machine shop. Some of the steel came from the decommissioned USS Princeton.
(www.fnal.gov/pub/ferminews/ferminews00-01-28/sculpture....
history.fnal.gov/art_architecture.html#21

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Coordinates: 41°50'26"N 88°16'38"W

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