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7 unusual facts about Brookhaven National Laboratory


A Pail of Air

They reveal that other groups of humans have survived at Argonne, Brookhaven, and Harwell nuclear research facilities as well as in Tanna Tuva, and that plans are being made to establish uranium mining colonies at Great Slave Lake or in the Congo region.

Aaron Lemonick

He taught at Haverford College and became chair of the physics department there in 1957, as well as working as a research collaborator at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Atomic gardening

One example is the resistance to verticillium wilt of the "Todd's Mitcham" cultivar of peppermint which was produced from a breeding and test program at Brookhaven National Laboratory from the mid-1950s.

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Brookhaven is also responsible for the design of the SNS accumulator ring in partnership with Spallation Neutron Source in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Ernst Messerschmid

From 1975 to 1976 he worked at the University of Freiburg and the Brookhaven National Laboratory (New York), In 1977, he joined DESY in Hamburg to work on the beam optics of the PETRA storage ring.

Joseph Zähringer

In 1955 he became an assistant at the university, and in 1956 he came to the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York.

Tennis for Two

Higinbotham created Tennis for Two to cure the boredom of visitors to Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he worked.


Chao Tang

In 1987, as a post-doctoral research scientist in the Solid State Theory Group of Brookhaven National Laboratory, he and another fellow post-doctoral scientist, Kurt Wiesenfeld, along with their mentor, Per Bak, presented new ideas in group organization with a concept they coined self-organized criticality in their paper in Physical Review Letters.

Energy Sciences Network

From there, ESnet delivers data from the LHC’s ATLAS detector to Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, to be processed and stored.

Lilug

The group was formed in December 1998, out of interested parties from two previously-existing organizations, the Farmingdale Linux and Associated Technologies Club and the Brookhaven National Laboratory Local Linux Users Group.

Nanotextured Surfaces

A research published online October 21, 2013, in Advanced Materials, of a group of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, led by Brookhaven physicist and lead author Antonio Checco, proposed that nanotexturing surfaces in the form of cones produces extremely water-repellent surfaces.


see also

Stephen Schwartz

Stephen E. Schwartz (born 1941), atmospheric scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory