The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley,Davis,Irvine,Los Angeles,Merced,Riverside,San Diego,San Francisco,Santa Barbara,and Santa Cruz,along with numerous research centers and academic abroad centers. The system is the state's land-grant university.
Los Alamos National Laboratory is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory initially organized during World War II for the design of nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project. It is a short distance northwest of Santa Fe,New Mexico,in the southwestern United States.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federal research facility in Livermore,California,United States,founded by the University of California,Berkeley in 1952. Originally a branch of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,the Lawrence Livermore laboratory became autonomous in 1971 and was designated a national laboratory in 1981.
Stanisław Marcin Ulam was a Polish-American scientist in the fields of mathematics and nuclear physics. He participated in the Manhattan Project,originated the Teller–Ulam design of thermonuclear weapons,discovered the concept of the cellular automaton,invented the Monte Carlo method of computation,and suggested nuclear pulse propulsion. In pure and applied mathematics,he proved some theorems and proposed several conjectures.
Edwin Mattison McMillan was an American physicist and Nobel laureate credited with being the first-ever to produce a transuranium element,neptunium. For this,he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Seaborg in 1951.
Herbert Frank York was an American nuclear physicist of Mohawk origin. He held numerous research and administrative positions at various United States government and educational institutes.
The LANL Research Library is a research library at Los Alamos National Laboratory. It contains a substantial collection of books,journals,databases,patents along with technical reports. Additionally it offers literature searching,training,and outreach services. The library has a research and development (R&D) component,which works in areas such as open archives,recommendation systems,emergency response information systems,and discovery systems. Its stated mission is to deliver effective and responsive knowledge services,thereby connecting people with information,technology,and resources. Its stated purpose (vision) is essential knowledge services for national security sciences.
The United States Department of Energy National Laboratories and Technology Centers are a system of facilities and laboratories overseen by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) for scientific and technological research. Sixteen of the seventeen DOE national laboratories are federally funded research and development centers administered,managed,operated and staffed by private-sector organizations under management and operating (M&O) contract with DOE.
Los Alamos National Security,LLC was a private limited liability company (LLC) formed by the University of California,Bechtel,BWX Technologies,and URS Energy and Construction. From its creation until November 1,2018,it operated Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) for the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration. It took over direct management and operation of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from the University of California on June 1,2006. It was based in Los Alamos,New Mexico. Operation of Los Alamos National Laboratory are now overseen by Triad National Security.
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.
Linton Forrestall Brooks is an American government official who served as the Under Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Security from 2002 to 2007.
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is a United States federal agency responsible for safeguarding national security through the military application of nuclear science. NNSA maintains and enhances the safety,security,and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile;works to reduce the global danger from weapons of mass destruction;provides the United States Navy with safe and effective nuclear propulsion;and responds to nuclear and radiological emergencies in the United States and abroad.
Los Alamos is a town in Los Alamos County,New Mexico,United States,that is recognized as the development and creation place of the atomic bomb—the primary objective of the Manhattan Project by Los Alamos National Laboratory during World War II. The town is located on four mesas of the Pajarito Plateau,and had a population of about 13,200 as of 2020. It is the county seat and one of two population centers in the county known as census-designated places (CDPs);the other is White Rock.
The Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement Facility,usually referred to as the CMRR,is a facility under construction at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico which is part of the United States' nuclear stockpile stewardship program. The facility will replace the aging Chemistry and Metallurgy Research (CMR) facility. It is located in Technical Area 55 (TA-55) and consists of two buildings:the Nuclear Facility (CMRR-NF) and the Radiological Laboratory,Utility,and Office Building (RLUOB). The two buildings will be linked by tunnels and will connect to LANL's existing 30-year-old plutonium facility PF-4. The facility is controversial both because of spiraling costs and because critics argue it will allow for expanded production of plutonium 'pits' and therefore could be used to manufacture new nuclear weapons.
John M. "Jack" Carpenter was an American nuclear engineer known as the originator of the technique for utilizing accelerator-induced intense pulses of neutrons for research and developing the first spallation slow neutron source based on a proton synchrotron,the Intense Pulsed Neutron Source (IPNS). He died on 10 March 2020.
Njema Frazier is a nuclear physicist at the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in Washington,D.C.
Warren Fletcher "Pete" Miller Jr. is an American nuclear engineer known for his work in the areas of computational physics,radioactive waste management,transport theory,nuclear reactor design and analysis,and the management of nuclear research and development programs.
Terry C. Wallace Jr. is an American geophysicist. He was the 11th director of Los Alamos National Laboratory and the president of Los Alamos National Security,LLC. He became director on January 1,2018,succeeding Charles F. McMillan.
Dana Dattelbaum is an American physicist and scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She leads NNSA’s Dynamic Materials Properties portfolio at LANL,which provides experimental data,platforms and diagnostics for materials behaviors relevant to nuclear weapons performance,ranging from plutonium to high explosives.
Carol Jean Burns is an American chemist who is Deputy Director of Research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research is in actinide coordination and organometallic chemistry. She spent a term at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy,and is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society. She was awarded the American Chemical Society Garvan–Olin Medal in 2021.
