American science and engineering research laboratory in Illinois
Argonne National Laboratory
Aerial view of Argonne National Laboratory
Established
February 8, 1946; 78 years ago (1946-02-08)
Research type
Research
Budget
$1.1 billion (2022)[1]
Field of research
Physical science Life science Environmental science Energy science Photon science Data science Computational science
Director
Paul Kearns
Staff
3400
Address
9700 S. Cass Avenue
Location
Lemont, Downers Grove Township, DuPage County, Illinois, USA
Campus
1,700 acres (6.9 km2)
Affiliations
United States Department of Energy University of Chicago Jacobs Engineering
Operating agency
UChicago Argonne LLC
Nobel laureates
Enrico Fermi Maria Goeppert Mayer Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov
Website
www.anl.gov
Argonne National Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center in Lemont, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1946, the laboratory is owned by the United States Department of Energy and administered by UChicago Argonne LLC of the University of Chicago.[2][3] The facility is the largest national laboratory in the Midwest.
Argonne had its beginnings in the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago, formed in part to carry out Enrico Fermi's work on nuclear reactors for the Manhattan Project during World War II. After the war, it was designated as the first national laboratory in the United States on July 1, 1946.[4] In its first decades, the laboratory was a hub for peaceful use of nuclear physics; nearly all operating commercial nuclear power plants around the world have roots in Argonne research.[5] More than 1,000 scientists conduct research at the laboratory, in the fields of energy storage and renewable energy; fundamental research in physics, chemistry, and materials science; environmental sustainability; supercomputing; and national security.
Argonne formerly ran a smaller facility called Argonne National Laboratory-West (or simply Argonne-West) in Idaho next to the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory. In 2005, the two Idaho-based laboratories merged to become the Idaho National Laboratory.[6]
Argonne is a part of the expanding Illinois Technology and Research Corridor.
^"Argonne: By the Numbers". Argonne National Laboratory. 2020. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
^"Master Government List of Federally Funded R&D Centers | NCSES | NSF". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
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