The photograph shows an aerial view of Fermilab's Accelerators, with the Main Injector in the foreground and Tevatron in the back. Fermilab (formerly the National Accelerator Laboratory) is one of sixteen National Laboratories operated by the Department of Energy. For more information on Fermilab, click on the photograph.
The Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory conducts research in the physical, biomedical, and environmental sciences, as well as in energy technologies. Brookhaven also builds and operates major facilities available to university, industrial, and government scientists. The Laboratory is managed by Brookhaven Science Associates, a limited liability company founded by Stony Brook University and Battelle, a nonprofit applied science and technology organization. For more information on Brookhaven, click on the photograph.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has been a leader in science and engineering research for more than 70 years. Located on a 200 acre site in the hills above the Berkeley campus of the University of California, overlooking the San Francisco Bay, Berkeley Lab is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratory managed by the University of California. It has an annual budget of nearly $480 million (FY2002) and employs a staff of about 4,300, including more than a thousand students. Click on the photo for the Berkley Labs home page.
Berkeley Lab conducts unclassified research across a wide range of scientific disciplines with key efforts in fundamental studies of the universe; quantitative biology; nanoscience; new energy systems and environmental solutions; and the use of integrated computing as a tool for discovery. It is organized into 17 scientific divisions and hosts five DOE national user facilities. Details on Berkeley Lab’s divisions and user facilities can be viewed here.
The Lab was founded
in 1931 by Ernest Orlando Lawrence, winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in physics
for his invention of the cyclotron, a circular particle accelerator that opened
the door to high-energy physics. It was Lawrence’s belief that scientific
research is best done through teams of individuals with different fields of
expertise, working together. His teamwork concept is a Berkeley Lab legacy that
has yielded rich dividends in basic knowledge and applied technology, and a
profusion of awards, including nine Nobel Prizes -- five in physics and four
in chemistry. A history of Lawrence and his laboratory can be viewed here.
The story of Berkeley Lab’s Nine Nobel Laureates can be viewed here
