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.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a federally funded research and development center in Oak Ridge,Tennessee,United States. Founded in 1943,the laboratory is now sponsored by the United States Department of Energy and administered by UT–Battelle,LLC.
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.
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory located in Upton,Long Island,and was formally established in 1947 at the site of Camp Upton,a former U.S. Army base and Japanese internment camp. Its name stems from its location within the Town of Brookhaven,approximately 60 miles east of New York City. It is managed by Stony Brook University and Battelle Memorial Institute.
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab),located just outside Batavia,Illinois,near Chicago,is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics. Since 2007,Fermilab has been operated by the Fermi Research Alliance (FRA),a joint venture of the University of Chicago,and the Universities Research Association (URA);although in 2023,the Department of Energy (DOE) opened bidding for a new contractor due to concerns about the FRA performance. Fermilab is a part of the Illinois Technology and Research Corridor.
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 United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and energy production,as well as manages the research and development of nuclear power,the military's nuclear weapons program,nuclear reactor production for the United States Navy,energy-related research,and energy conservation.
The United States Department of Energy National Laboratories and Technology Centers is a system of laboratories overseen by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) for scientific and technological research. The primary mission of the DOE national laboratories is to conduct research and development (R&D) addressing national priorities:energy and climate,the environment,national security,and health. 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) contracts with the DOE.
Richard Lawrence Garwin is an American physicist,best known as the author of the first hydrogen bomb design.
The Under Secretary for Science and Innovation,formerly the Under Secretary for Science and Energy,is a high-ranking position within the United States Department of Energy. The position was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005,and the first Under Secretary for Science,Raymond L. Orbach,was sworn in on June 1,2006. The under secretary is appointed by the president of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate. In March 2009,Steven E. Koonin was nominated to replace Orbach. Franklin (Lynn) M. Orr was sworn in as the Under Secretary for Science and Energy on December 17,2014,and served in this position through the end of the Obama administration. The most recent under secretary was Paul Dabbar.
The Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (OICI),also abbreviated IN,DOE-IN,DOE/IN,I&CI,or OIC,was established in 2006 by the merger of pre-existing Energy Department intelligence and security organizations. It is an office of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) responsible for all intelligence and counterintelligence activities throughout the DOE complex;due to this central role,OICI is designated DOE's Headquarters Intelligence. As a component of the United States Intelligence Community in addition to the Department of Energy,OICI reports to both the Director of National Intelligence and Secretary of Energy.
The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award was established in 1959 in honor of a scientist who helped elevate American physics to the status of world leader in the field.
The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) is a council in the Executive Branch of the United States. It is designed to coordinate science and technology policy across the branches of federal government.
The Office of Science is a component of the United States Department of Energy (DOE). The Office of Science is the lead federal agency supporting fundamental scientific research for energy and the Nation’s largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences. The Office of Science portfolio has two principal thrusts:direct support of scientific research and direct support of the development,construction,and operation of unique,open-access scientific user facilities that are made available for use by external researchers.
Kenneth William Ford is an American theoretical physicist,teacher,and writer,currently residing near Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. He was the first chair of the physics department at the University of California,Irvine,and later served as president of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and as Executive Director and CEO of the American Institute of Physics.
Milton Dean Slaughter is an American theoretical and phenomenological physicist and affiliate professor of physics at Florida International University. Slaughter was a visiting associate professor of physics in the Center for Theoretical Physics,University of Maryland,College Park while on sabbatical from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) of the University of California from 1984 to 1985. He is also chair emeritus and university research professor of physics emeritus at the University of New Orleans (UNO). Prior to joining UNO as chair of the physics department:He was a postdoctoral fellow in the LANL Theoretical Division Elementary Particles and Field Theory Group (T-8);LANL Theoretical Division Detonation Theory and Applications Group (T-14) staff physicist;LANL Theoretical Division affirmative action representative and staff physicist;LANL assistant theoretical division leader for administration and staff physicist (T-DO);LANL Nuclear and Particle Physics Group staff physicist—Medium Energy Physics Division (MP-4);and LANL Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) project manager (laboratory-wide).
Sam Aronson is an American physicist,formerly president of the American Physical Society in 2015 and also formerly the director of the Brookhaven National Laboratory from 2006 to 2012.
Inés Ramona Triay is the executive director of the Applied Research Center (ARC) and the interim Dean at the College of Engineering at Florida International University (FIU). Triay was appointed by President Obama as the 7th DOE Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management and sworn into office in May 2009. She played leading role at the Office of Environment Management (EM),which is charged with the safe and complete cleanup of the environmental legacy brought about from five decades of nuclear weapons development and government-sponsored nuclear energy research.
Christine Angela Aidala is an American high-energy nuclear physicist,Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow and Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan. She studies nucleon structure and parton dynamics in quantum chromodynamics.
William Frank Brinkman is an American physicist who served as president of the American Physical Society (2002) and was the head of the Office of Science at the United States Department of Energy (2009–2013). He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1984,and won the George E. Pake Prize in 1994. He was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992,and became a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2002.
