Los Alamos National Laboratory is one of the sixteen research and development laboratories of the United States Department of Energy (DOE),located a short distance northwest of Santa Fe,New Mexico,in the American southwest. Best known for its central role in helping develop the first atomic bomb,LANL is one of the world's largest and most advanced scientific institutions.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federally funded research and development center in Livermore,California,United States. Originally established in 1952,the laboratory now is sponsored by the United States Department of Energy and administered privately by Lawrence Livermore National Security,LLC.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is a federally funded research and development center in the hills of Berkeley,California,United States. Established in 1931 by the University of California (UC),the laboratory is sponsored by the United States Department of Energy and administered by the UC system. Ernest Lawrence,who won the Nobel prize for inventing the cyclotron,founded the Lab and served as its Director until his death in 1958. Located in the Berkeley Hills,the lab overlooks the campus of the University of California,Berkeley.
The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is a laser-based inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research device,located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore,California,United States. NIF's mission is to achieve fusion ignition with high energy gain. It achieved the first instance of scientific breakeven controlled fusion in an experiment on December 5,2022,with an energy gain factor of 1.5. It supports nuclear weapon maintenance and design by studying the behavior of matter under the conditions found within nuclear explosions.
Curtis Bruce Tarter is an American theoretical physicist. He was the director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1994-2002. As director emeritus he recently published the first comprehensive history of the laboratory.
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), is a high-performance computing (supercomputer) National User Facility operated by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the United States Department of Energy Office of Science. As the mission computing center for the Office of Science,NERSC houses high performance computing and data systems used by 9,000 scientists at national laboratories and universities around the country. Research at NERSC is focused on fundamental and applied research in energy efficiency,storage,and generation;Earth systems science,and understanding of fundamental forces of nature and the universe. The largest research areas are in High Energy Physics,Materials Science,Chemical Sciences,Climate and Environmental Sciences,Nuclear Physics,and Fusion Energy research. NERSC's newest and largest supercomputer is Perlmutter,which debuted in 2021 ranked 5th on the TOP500 list of world's fastest supercomputers.
Darleane Christian Hoffman is an American nuclear chemist who was among the researchers who confirmed the existence of seaborgium,element 106. She is a faculty senior scientist in the Nuclear Science Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor in the graduate school at UC Berkeley. In acknowledgment of her many achievements,Discover magazine recognized her in 2002 as one of the 50 most important women in science.
Claire Ellen Max is a Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California,Santa Cruz (UCSC) and is affiliated with the Lick Observatory. She was the Director of the Center for Adaptive Optics at UCSC,2007-2014. Max received the E.O. Lawrence Award in Physics.
The Department of Applied Science at the University of California,Davis was a cooperative academic program involving the University of California,Davis and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). It was established in the fall of 1963 by Edward Teller,director of LLNL,and Roy Bainer,then dean of the UC Davis College of Engineering. The department was discontinued in 2011.
Edward Moses is an American physicist and is the former president of the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization. He is a past principal associate director for the National Ignition Facility &Photon Science Directorate,where he led the California-based NIF,the largest experimental science facility in the US and the world's most energetic laser,that hopes to demonstrate the first feasible example of usable nuclear fusion.
Richard Freeman Post was an American physicist notable for his work in nuclear fusion,plasma physics,magnetic mirrors,magnetic levitation,magnetic bearing design and direct energy conversion.
William W. Simmons is an American physicist at TRW and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL),notable for his development of electro-optical devices.
Dawn Angela Shaughnessy is an American radiochemist and principal investigator of the heavy element group at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She was involved in the discovery of five superheavy elements with atomic numbers 114 to 118.
Carol Travis Alonso is a Canadian-born American physicist,author and horsewoman. She was a co-discoverer of Element 106,Seaborgium,with Nobel laureate Glenn Seaborg and other team members at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Félicie Albert is a French-born American physicist working on laser plasma accelerators. She is the deputy director for the Center for High Energy Density Science at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and staff scientist at the National Ignition Facility and Photon Science Directorate and the Joint High Energy Density Sciences organization.
John D. Lindl is an American physicist who specializes in inertial confinement fusion (ICF). He is currently the chief scientist of the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Jennifer Pett-Ridge is an American biologist who is a senior staff scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of California,Merced. Her research makes use of systems biology and geochemistry to uncover function in microbial communities. She was awarded a 2021 United States Department of Energy Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award.
Tammy Ma is an American plasma physicist who works on inertial confinement fusion at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Sharon Gail Glendinning is an American experimental physicist.
Andrea Lynn "Annie" Kritcher is an American nuclear engineer and physicist who works at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She was responsible for the development of Hybrid-E,a capsule that enables inertial confinement fusion. She was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2022.
