Physics Research
A large and diversified federal R&D lab, owned by the Department of Energy and operated by the University of Chicago, and one of the major scientific campuses in the USA. Facilities include particle accelerators and a nuclear reactor; more than half of the research here is in energy and nuclear...
A diversified federal R...
CUBRC is a nonprofit organization that operates the Large Energy National Shock Tunnel (LENS) for the U.S. Government. The tunnel is used in high-velocity research, duplicating flight conditions on projectiles and weapons at speeds of up to Mach 15.
FermiLab, west of Chicago, is one of the major physics research sites in the USA, and has the nation's only large-scale particle accelerator. Owned by the Department of Energy, and operated by Universities Research Association Inc. Located on a 6,800 acre site, the facility employs 2,300 people.
A federal nuclear physics research facility, with the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility, which opened in 1994. Employs around 450 people, and is located on 273 acres. Owned by the Department of Energy, and operated by an association of universities. Also known as Jefferson Lab, the...
A rambling complex in the hills behind the campus, Lawrence Berkeley Lab is a historic physics research facility adjacent to the Univerity of California, Berkeley, which operates the lab for the Department of Energy. Several unique facilities have been built at Lawrence Berkeley over the years,...
LIGO - the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory - is a new research facility on the grounds of the Hanford Reservation, built to record otherwise undetectable gravitational waves striking the earth. The facility consists of a control building, from which a pair of two mile long,...
A nuclear fusion research lab, owned by the Department of Energy, and operated by Princeton University. Facilities include the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor, the Princeton Beta Experiment, and the Current Drive Experiment. On 72 acres in Princeton, employing around 800 people.
A particle physics lab with a two-mile long accelerator. Operated by Stanford University for the Department of Energy, the lab employs around 1,200 people. The 426-acre installation is on Stanford University property. Now also said to be home of the "first U.S. Web Site."
The Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory project at this site was canceled by the federal government in 1993, after 14 miles of tunnels were completed and two billion dollars spent. The project was directed by the US Department of Energy and was to include a 54 mile long particle accelerator...
Site of Tesla's 187-foot world broadcasting electrical transmission tower, part of an experiment by the revolutionary electrical engineer and scientist to create a means of transmitting electricity through the air. Never completely finished, the tower was destroyed in 1917, and hauled away for...