:Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne has five areas of focus, as stated by the laboratory in 2022, including scientific discovery in physical and life sciences; energy and climate research; global security advances to protect society; operating research facilities that support thousands of scientists and engineers from around the world; and developing the scientific and technological workforce.{{cite web|url=https://www.anl.gov/reference/our-path-forward|title=Our Path Forward|publisher=Argonne National Laboratory|access-date=22 May 2023}}

Argonne began in 1942 as the Metallurgical Laboratory, part of the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago. The Met Lab built Chicago Pile-1, the world's first nuclear reactor, under the stands of the University of Chicago sports stadium. In 1943, CP-1 was reconstructed as CP-2, in the Argonne Forest, a forest preserve location outside Chicago. The laboratory facilities built here became known as Site A.

On July 1, 1946, Site A of the "Metallurgical Laboratory" was formally re-chartered as Argonne National Laboratory for "cooperative research in nucleonics." At the request of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, it began developing nuclear reactors for the nation's peaceful nuclear energy program. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the laboratory moved west to a larger location in unincorporated DuPage County and established a remote location in Idaho, called "Argonne-West," to conduct further nuclear research.

The lab's early efforts focused on developing designs and materials for producing electricity from nuclear reactions. The laboratory designed and built Chicago Pile 3 (1944), the world's first heavy-water moderated reactor, and the Experimental Breeder Reactor I (Chicago Pile 4) in Idaho, which lit a string of four light bulbs with the world's first nuclear-generated electricity in 1951. The BWR power station reactor, now the second most popular design worldwide, came from the BORAX experiments.

The knowledge gained from the Argonne experiments was the foundation for the designs of most of the commercial reactors used throughout the world for electric power generation, and inform the current evolving designs of liquid-metal reactors for future power stations.

Meanwhile, the laboratory was also helping to design the reactor for the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, the U.S.S. Nautilus, which steamed for more than {{convert|513,550|nmi|km}} and provided a basis for the United States' nuclear navy.

Not all nuclear technology went into developing reactors, however. While designing a scanner for reactor fuel elements in 1957, Argonne physicist William Nelson Beck put his own arm inside the scanner and obtained one of the first ultrasound images of the human body.{{cite news |title = William Nelson "Nels" Beck: Joliet Physicist's Work Changed Medical World |publisher = CityofJoliet.com |url = http://www.cityofjoliet.com/halloffame/scientists/wnbeck.htm |access-date = 2010-02-04 |archive-date = 2011-07-21 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110721014451/http://www.cityofjoliet.com/halloffame/scientists/wnbeck.htm |url-status = dead }} Remote manipulators designed to handle radioactive materials laid the groundwork for more complex machines used to clean up contaminated areas, sealed laboratories or caves.Holl, Hewlett, and Harris, page 126

In addition to nuclear work, the laboratory performed basic research in physics and chemistry. In 1955, Argonne chemists co-discovered the elements einsteinium and fermium, elements 99 and 100 in the periodic table.Holl, Hewlett, and Harris, page 179.

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In 1962, Argonne chemists produced the first compound of the inert noble gas xenon, opening up a new field of chemical bonding research.Holl, Hewlett, and Harris, page 226. In 1963, they discovered the hydrated electron.{{cite news |title = Argonne History: Innovation and Serendipity |publisher = Argonne National Laboratory |url = http://www.anl.gov/Science_and_Technology/History/Anniversary_Frontiers/chemhist.html |access-date = 2010-02-04 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100527225129/http://www.anl.gov/Science_and_Technology/History/Anniversary_Frontiers/chemhist.html |archive-date = 2010-05-27 |url-status = dead }}

Argonne was chosen as the site of the 12.5 GeV Zero Gradient Synchrotron, a proton accelerator that opened in 1963. A bubble chamber allowed scientists to track the motions of subatomic particles as they zipped through the chamber; they later observed the neutrino in a hydrogen bubble chamber for the first time.Patel, page 23

In 1964, the "Janus" reactor opened to study the effects of neutron radiation on biological life, providing research for guidelines on safe exposure levels for workers at power plants, laboratories and hospitals.{{cite news |title = Research helps safeguard nuclear workers worldwide |publisher = Argonne National Laboratory |url = http://www.ne.anl.gov/About/hn/news960803.shtml}} Scientists at Argonne pioneered a technique to analyze the Moon's surface using alpha radiation, which launched aboard the Surveyor 5{{cite news |last = Jacobsen |first = Sally |title = Getting Aboard Viking: No Room on the Mars Lander. |date = December 1971|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=JgsAAAAAMBAJ}} in 1967 and later analyzed lunar samples from the Apollo 11 mission.

In 1978, the Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS) opened as the world's first superconducting accelerator for projectiles heavier than the electron.{{cite web|url=https://www.anl.gov/atlas/about-atlas|title=About ATLAS|publisher=Argonne National Laboratory|access-date=22 May 2023}}

Nuclear engineering experiments during this time included the Experimental Boiling Water Reactor, the forerunner of many modern nuclear plants, and Experimental Breeder Reactor II (EBR-II), which was sodium-cooled, and included a fuel recycling facility. EBR-II was later modified to test other reactor designs, including a fast-neutron reactor and, in 1982, the Integral Fast Reactor concept—a revolutionary design that reprocessed its own fuel, reduced its atomic waste and withstood safety tests of the same failures that triggered the Chernobyl and Three Mile Island disasters.{{cite news |title = Frontline: Nuclear Reaction: Interview with Dr. Charles Till |publisher = PBS |url = https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/interviews/till.html}} In 1994, however, the U.S. Congress terminated funding for the bulk of Argonne's nuclear programs.

Argonne moved to specialize in other areas, while capitalizing on its experience in physics, chemical sciences and metallurgy. In 1987, the laboratory was the first to successfully demonstrate a pioneering technique called plasma wakefield acceleration, which accelerates particles in much shorter distances than conventional accelerators.{{cite web|title=Argonne History: Understanding the Physical Universe |publisher=Argonne National Laboratory |url=http://www.anl.gov/Science_and_Technology/History/Anniversary_Frontiers/physhist.html#neutrino |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040909173546/http://www.anl.gov/Science_and_Technology/History/Anniversary_Frontiers/physhist.html |archive-date=9 September 2004 }} It also cultivated a strong battery research program.

Following a major push by then-director Alan Schriesheim, the laboratory was chosen as the site of the Advanced Photon Source, a major X-ray facility which was completed in 1995 and produced the brightest X-rays in the world at the time of its construction.

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The laboratory continued to develop as a center for energy research, as well as a site for scientific facilities too large to be hosted at universities.

In the early 2000s, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility was founded and hosted multiple supercomputers, several of which ranked among the top 10 most powerful in the world at the time of their construction. The laboratory also built the Center for Nanoscale Materials for conducting materials research at the atomic level; and greatly expanded its battery research and quantum technology programs.{{cite web|url=https://www.anl.gov/our-history|title=Our History|publisher=Argonne National Laboratory|access-date=22 May 2023}}

Chicago Tribune reported in March 2019 that the laboratory was constructing the world's most powerful supercomputer. Costing $500 million, it will have the processing power of 1 quintillion FLOPS. Applications will include the analysis of stars and improvements in the power grid.{{Cite news |last=Marotti |first=Ally |date=18 March 2019 |title=The fastest computer in the world is being built 25 miles outside Chicago. Its name is Aurora. |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-worlds-fastest-computer-chicago-20190314-story.html |url-status=live |work=Chicago Tribune|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190319003827/https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-worlds-fastest-computer-chicago-20190314-story.html |archive-date=19 March 2019 }}

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• Hard X-ray Sciences: Argonne is home to one of the world's largest high-energy light sources: the Advanced Photon Source (APS). Each year, scientists make thousands of discoveries while using the APS to characterize both organic and inorganic materials and even processes, such as how vehicle fuel injectors spray gasoline in engines.{{cite news |title = New X-ray technique may lead to better, cleaner fuel injectors for automobiles |publisher = Argonne National Laboratory |date = 2008-02-19 |url = http://www.anl.gov/Media_Center/News/2008/news080219.html}}
• Leadership Computing: Argonne maintains one of the fastest computers for open science and has developed system software for these massive machines. Argonne works to drive the evolution of leadership computing from petascale to exascale, develop new codes and computing environments, and expand computational efforts to help solve scientific challenges. For example, in October 2009, the laboratory announced that it would be embarking on a joint project to explore cloud computing for scientific purposes.{{cite news |title = DOE to explore scientific cloud computing at Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories |publisher = Argonne National Laboratory |date = 2009-10-14 |url = http://www.anl.gov/Media_Center/News/2009/news091014a.html}} In the 1970s Argonne translated the Numerische Mathematik numerical linear algebra programs from ALGOL to Fortran and this library was expanded into LINPACK and EISPACK, by Cleve Moler, et al.
• Materials for Energy: Argonne scientists work to predict, understand, and control where and how to place individual atoms and molecules to achieve desired material properties. Among other innovations, Argonne scientists helped develop an ice slurry to cool the organs of heart attack victims,{{cite news |last = Gupta |first = Manya |title = Medical care on ice |publisher = Medill Reports |date = 2009-11-10 |url = http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=145701 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110930160942/http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=145701 |archive-date = 2011-09-30 }} described what makes diamonds slippery at the nanoscale level,{{cite web |title = Engineers reveal what makes diamonds slippery at the nanoscale |website = ScienceDaily |date = 25 June 2008 |url = https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080623133523.htm |author = University of Pennsylvania}} and discovered a superinsulating material that resists the flow of electric current more completely than any other previous material.{{cite news |title = Newly discovered 'superinsulators' promise to transform materials research, electronics design |publisher = Argonne National Laboratory |date = 2008-04-04 |url = http://www.anl.gov/Media_Center/News/2008/MSD080404.html |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090826224133/http://www.anl.gov/Media_Center/News/2008/MSD080404.html |archive-date = 2009-08-26 }}
• Electrical Energy Storage: Argonne develops batteries for electric transportation technology and grid storage for intermittent energy sources like wind or solar, as well as the manufacturing processes needed for these materials-intensive systems. The laboratory has been working on advanced battery materials research and development for over 50 years.{{cite news |title = Building better batteries |publisher = U.S. Department of Energy |access-date = 2009-12-13 |url = https://www.energy.gov/discovery/building_better_batteries.html |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100527135753/http://www.energy.gov/discovery/building_better_batteries.html |archive-date = 2010-05-27 |url-status = dead }} In the past 10 years, the laboratory has focused on lithium-ion batteries, and in September 2009, it announced an initiative to explore and improve their capabilities.{{cite news |title = Argonne opens new chapter in battery research: Li-Air |publisher = Argonne National Laboratory |date = 2009-09-15 |url = http://www.anl.gov/Media_Center/News/2009/batteries090915.html}} Argonne also maintains an independent battery-testing facility, which tests sample batteries from both government and private industry to see how well they perform over time and under heat and cold stresses.{{cite news |title = Battery Test Facility |publisher = Argonne National Laboratory, Transportation Center |access-date = 2009-12-13 |url = http://www.transportation.anl.gov/facilities/battery_lab.html |archive-date = 2011-08-26 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110826061826/http://www.transportation.anl.gov/facilities/battery_lab.html |url-status = dead }}
• Alternative Energy and Efficiency: Argonne develops both chemical and biological fuels tailored for current engines as well as improved combustion schemes for future engine technologies. The laboratory has also recommended best practices for conserving fuel; for example, a study that recommended installing auxiliary cab heaters for trucks in lieu of idling the engine.{{cite news |last = Leavitt |first = Wendy |title = Not Just Idle Talk |publisher = Fleet Owner |date = 1998-08-01 |url = http://fleetowner.com/mag/fleet_not_idle_talk_2/}} Meanwhile, the solar energy research program focuses on solar-fuel and solar-electric devices and systems that are scalable and economically competitive with fossil energy sources.{{cite news |title = Argonne, Northwestern seek ANSER to solar energy challenges |publisher = Argonne National Laboratory |date = 2007-05-08 |url = http://www.anl.gov/Media_Center/News/2007/news070509.html}} Argonne scientists also explore best practices for a smart grid, both by modeling power flow between utilities and homes and by researching the technology for interfaces.{{cite news |title = Grid Research: Making the Grid Smarter |publisher = Argonne National Laboratory Transportation Center |date = 2009-08-01 |url = http://www.transportation.anl.gov/smart_grid/index.html |access-date = 2009-12-14 |archive-date = 2015-09-12 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150912064813/http://www.transportation.anl.gov/smart_grid/index.html |url-status = dead }}
• Nuclear Energy: Argonne generates advanced reactor and fuel cycle technologies that enable the safe, sustainable generation of nuclear power. Argonne scientists develop and validate computational models and reactor simulations of future generation nuclear reactors.{{cite news |title = Putting the new in nuclear |publisher = Argonne National Laboratory magazine |date = Fall 2009 |url = http://www.ne.anl.gov/About/headlines/frontiers-fall09.shtml}} Another project studies how to reprocess spent nuclear fuel, so that waste is reduced up to 90%.{{cite news |publisher=Science Channel |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMhruDLNwBI |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/FMhruDLNwBI| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=Doing the impossible: Recycling nuclear waste |access-date=2013-06-10}}{{cbignore}}
• Biological and Environmental Systems: Understanding the local effect of climate change requires integration of the interactions between the environment and human activities. Argonne scientists study these relationships from molecule to organism to ecosystem. Programs include bioremediation using trees to pull pollutants out of groundwater;{{cite news |title = Argonne Cleans Up Brownfield Sites [video] |publisher = CleanSkies Network |date = 2009-11-10 |url = http://www.cleanskies.com/videos/argonne-cleans-brownfield-sites |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091221152637/http://www.cleanskies.com/videos/argonne-cleans-brownfield-sites |archive-date = 2009-12-21 }} biochips to detect cancers earlier;{{cite news |title = Biochips can detect cancers before symptoms develop |publisher = Argonne National Laboratory |date = 2008-05-09 |url = http://www.anl.gov/Media_Center/News/2008/ES080509.html}} a project to target cancerous cells using nanoparticles;{{cite news |last = Wang |first = Ann |title = Magnetic microdiscs target and initiate cell death in tumors |publisher = Johns Hopkins Newsletter |date = 2 December 2009 |url = http://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2009/12/magnetic-microdiscs-target-and-initiate-cell-death-in-tumors-22001 }} soil metagenomics; and a user facility for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurementclimate change research project.{{cite news |title = ARRA funding to help scientists better understand climate change |publisher = Argonne National Laboratory |date = 2009-12-08 |url = http://www.anl.gov/Media_Center/News/2009/news091208.html}}
• National Security: Argonne develops security technologies that will prevent and mitigate events with potential for mass disruption or destruction. These include sensors that can detect chemical, biological, nuclear and explosive materials;{{cite news |title = New sensor technology detects chemical, biological, nuclear and explosive materials |publisher = Argonne National Laboratory |date = 2006-03-21 |url = http://www.ne.anl.gov/About/headlines/20060321.shtml}} portable Terahertz radiation ("T-ray") machines that detect dangerous materials more easily than X-rays at airports;{{cite news |title = New T-ray source could improve airport security, cancer detection |publisher = Argonne National Laboratory |date = 2007-11-23 |url = http://www.anl.gov/Media_Center/News/2007/MSD071123.html}} and tracking and modeling the possible paths of chemicals released into a subway.{{cite news |last = Szaniszlo |first = Marie |title = MBTA preps for biological terror attack |newspaper = Boston Herald |date = 2009-12-06 |url = http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20091206mbta_preps_for_biological_terror_attack/}}

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Argonne builds and maintains scientific facilities that would be too expensive for a single company or university to construct and operate. These facilities are used by scientists from Argonne, private industry, academia, other national laboratories and international scientific organizations.

• Advanced Photon Source (APS): a national synchrotron X-ray research facility which produces the brightest X-ray beams in the Western Hemisphere.{{Cite web|url=http://www.aps.anl.gov/About/APS_Overview/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090926051335/http://www.aps.anl.gov/About/APS_Overview/|url-status=dead|title=Argonne About the APS|archivedate=September 26, 2009}}
• Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM): a user facility located on the APS which provides infrastructure and instruments to study nanotechnology and nanomaterials. The CNM is one of five U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Nanoscale Science Research Centers.{{cite web |url=http://www.er.doe.gov/bes/user_facilities/dsuf/nanocenters.htm |work=Department of Energy |title= Nanoscale Science Research Centers: Scientific User Facilities Division |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091208115550/http://www.er.doe.gov/bes/user_facilities/dsuf/nanocenters.htm |archive-date=2009-12-08 }}
• Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System (ATLAS): ATLAS is the world's first superconducting particle accelerator for heavy ions at energies in the vicinity of the Coulomb barrier. This is the energy domain suited to study the properties of the nucleus, the core of matter and the fuel of stars.{{cite web|url=http://www.phy.anl.gov/atlas/|title=Argonne Physics Division – ATLAS|website=phy.anl.gov|access-date=20 June 2018}}

• The Advanced Materials for Energy-Water Systems{{cite web |title=Advanced Materials for Energy-Water Systems Center |url=https://www.anl.gov/amews |website=anl.gov |publisher=Argonne National Laboratory |access-date=10 November 2021}} (AMEWS) Center is an Energy Frontier Research Center sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. Led by Argonne National Laboratory and including the University of Chicago and Northwestern University as partners, AMEWS works to solve the challenges that exist at the interface of water and the materials that make up the systems that handle, process and treat water.
• Electron Microscopy Center (EMC): one of three DOE-supported scientific user facilities for electron beam microcharacterization. The EMC conducts in situ studies of transformations and defect processes, ion beam modification and irradiation effects, superconductors, ferroelectrics and interfaces. Its intermediate voltage electron microscope, which is coupled with an accelerator, represents the only such system in the United States.{{cite web|url=http://www.msd.anl.gov/groups/emc/|title=About the EMC|access-date=20 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170906202601/http://www.msd.anl.gov/groups/emc/|archive-date=6 September 2017|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}
• Biology Center (SBC): The SBC is a user facility located off the Advanced Photon Source X-ray facility, which specializes in macromolecular crystallography. Users have access to an insertion-device, a bending-magnet, and a biochemistry laboratory. SBC beamlines are often used to map out the crystal structures of proteins; in the past, users have imaged proteins from anthrax, meningitis-causing bacteria, salmonella, and other pathogenic bacteria.{{cite web|url=https://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=12817|title=MCSG Deposit Their 1,000th Protein Structure into Protein Data Bank|date=27 July 2009|website=AZoNano.com|access-date=20 June 2018}}
• The Network Enabled Optimization System (NEOS) Server is the first network-enabled problem-solving environment for a wide class of applications in business, science, and engineering. Included are state-of-the-art solvers in integer programming, nonlinear optimization, linear programming, stochastic programming, and complementarity problems. Most NEOS solvers accept input in the AMPL modeling language.
• The Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) is a consortium of several national laboratories, academic institutions, and industrial partners based at Argonne National Laboratory. The mission of JCESR is to design and build transformative materials enabling next-generation batteries that satisfy all the performance metrics for a given application.{{cite web|url=https://www.jcesr.org/publications/published-papers/|title=Joint Center for Energy Storage Research Publication List| website=jcesr.org/publications/published-papers}}{{cite web|url=http://www.jcesr.org/|title=Joint Center for Energy Storage Research|website=jcesr.org|access-date=20 June 2018}}
• The Midwest Integrated Center for Computational Materials (MICCoM) is headquartered at the laboratory. MICCoM develops and disseminates interoperable open-source software, data, and validation procedures to simulate and predict properties of functional materials for energy conversion processes.{{cite web|url=https://www.anl.gov/article/doe-creates-new-center-for-computational-materials-at-argonne |title=DOE creates new Center for Computational Materials at Argonne|date=2 October 2015 |access-date=28 January 2019}}{{cite web|url=http://miccom-center.org/mission.html |title=MICCoM Mission|access-date=28 January 2019}}
• The ReCell Center is a national collaboration of industry, academia and national laboratories, led by Argonne National Laboratory, working to advance recycling technologies along the entire battery life cycle. The center aims to grow a sustainable advanced battery recycling industry by developing economic and environmentally sound recycling processes that can be adopted by industry for lithium-ion and future battery chemistries.

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Argonne welcomes all members of the public age 16 or older to take guided tours of the scientific and engineering facilities and grounds. For children under 16, Argonne offers hands-on learning activities suitable for K–12 field trips. The laboratory also hosts educational science and engineering outreach for schools in the surrounding area.

Argonne scientists and engineers take part in the training of nearly 1,000 college graduate students and post-doctoral researchers every year as part of their research and development activities.{{cn|date=June 2024}}

Over the course of its history, 13 individuals have served as Argonne Director:

• 1946–1956 Walter Zinn
• 1957–1961 Norman Hilberry
• 1961–1967 Albert V. Crewe
• 1967–1973 Robert B. Duffield
• 1973–1979 Robert G. Sachs
• 1979–1984 Walter E. Massey
• 1984–1996 Alan Schriesheim
• 1996–1998 Dean E. Eastman
• 1999–2000 Yoon Il Chang
• 2000–2005 Hermann A. Grunder
• 2005–2008 Robert Rosner
• 2009–2014 Eric Isaacs
• 2014–2016 Peter Littlewood
• 2017–present Paul Kearns{{Cite web|url=https://www.anl.gov/profile/paul-k-kearns|title=Paul K. Kearns {{!}} Argonne National Laboratory|website=anl.gov|language=en|access-date=2019-02-26}}

Significant portions of the 1996 chase film Chain Reaction were shot in the Zero Gradient Synchrotron ring room and the former Continuous Wave Deuterium Demonstrator laboratory.{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1996/09/17/argonne-basks-in-attention-of-anniversary-film/ |url-status=live |title=Argonne Basks In Attention Of Anniversary, Film|website=Chicago Tribune |date=17 September 1996 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250128113030/https://www.chicagotribune.com/1996/09/17/argonne-basks-in-attention-of-anniversary-film/ |access-date=20 June 2018|archive-date=28 January 2025 }}

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• Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov
• Khalil Amine
• Paul Benioff
• Charles H. Bennett
• Sandra Biedron
• Margaret K. Butler
• David Callaway
• Yanglai Cho
• George Crabtree
• Seth Darling
• Harold B. Evans
• Paul Fenter
• Enrico Fermi
• Stuart Freedman
• Ian Foster
• Wallace Givens
• Raymond Goertz
• Maury C. Goodman
• Kawtar Hafidi
• Morton Hamermesh
• Cynthia Hall
• Katrin Heitmann
• Caroline Herzenberg
• Paul Kearns
• Harold Lichtenberger
• Maria Goeppert Mayer
• William McCune
• Joël Mesot
• Carlo Montemagno
• José Enrique Moyal
• Gilbert Jerome Perlow
• Stephen Turnham Pratt
• Lloyd_Quarterman
• Aneesur Rahman
• John P. Schiffer
• Luise Meyer-Schützmeister
• Rolf Siemssen
• Dorothy Martin Simon
• Lynda Soderholm
• Marius Stan
• Rick Stevens
• Valerie Taylor
• Marion C. Thurnauer
• Carlos E.M. Wagner
• Kameshwar C. Wali
• Larry Wos
• Cosmas Zachos
• Daniel Zajfman
• Nestor J. Zaluzec

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• Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy
• Automated theorem proving
• Canadian Penning Trap Spectrometer
• Center for the Advancement of Science in Space—operates the US National Laboratory on the ISS.
• Gammasphere
• Nanofluid
• Track Imaging Cherenkov Experiment

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• Argonne National Laboratory, 1946–96. Jack M. Holl, Richard G. Hewlett, Ruth R. Harris. University of Illinois Press, 1997. {{ISBN|978-0-252-02341-5}}.
• Nuclear physics: an introduction. S.B. Patel. New Age International Ltd., 1991. {{ISBN|81-224-0125-2}}.
• Summary of Nuclear Chemistry Work at Argonne, Martin H. Studier, Argonne National Laboratory Report, Declassified June 13, 1949.

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