Image: Artist Jim Sanborn outside his studio with part of his installation, "Terrestrial Physics." The Washington Post.

An article on Jim Sanborn’s newest art installation, “Terrestrial Physics,” appears in today's Washington Post. “The most substantial work of art to come out of Washington since the 1950s,” Sanborn’s newest installation was inspired by the night of 28 January 1939 when Niels Bohr and Enrico Fermi used the particle accelerator on DTM’s campus to smash an atom, confirming that nuclear fission was possible. Dubbed a “re-creationist” project, Sanborn visited DTM’s Van de Graaff generator, obtained permission to copy it—even using some of its original fittings in the design—and worked with librarian Shaun Hardy to obtain photos and papers from the DTM archives for historical accuracy.