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Company Overview
Chartered in 1946 as the nation’s first national laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory enters the 21st century focused on solving the major scientific and engineering challenges of our time. Argonne serves America as a science and energy laboratory distinguished by the breadth of its research and development (R&D) capabilities, combined with a unique portfolio of experimental and computational user facilities. In basic science, Argonne delivers new knowledge in physical sciences, earth sciences, and mathematics. The Laboratory’s early-stage R&D encompasses nuclear, chemical, bioprocess, materials, and systems engineering, and drives breakthroughs in energy technology. Argonne is a locus of research for more than 8,300 scientists and engineers each year from other institutions, whose work is advanced by access to the Laboratory’s research centers and user facilities and by collaborations with Argonne scientists. Since its founding in 1946, Argonne has been managed by The University of Chicago (UChicago), one of the world’s preeminent research universities, and its work is enriched by ongoing collaborations with UChicago faculty. The Laboratory employs more than 3,100 Chicago-area residents.
Company History
Argonne is a multidisciplinary science and engineering research center, where talented scientists and engineers work together to answer the biggest questions facing humanity, from how to obtain affordable clean energy to protecting ourselves and our environment. Ever since we were born out of the University of Chicago’s work on the Manhattan Project in the 1940s, our goal has been to make an impact — from the atomic to the human to the global scale.
The laboratory works in concert with universities, industry, and other national laboratories on questions and experiments too large for any one institution to do by itself. Through collaborations here and around the world, we strive to discover new ways to develop energy innovations through science, create novel materials molecule-by-molecule, and gain a deeper understanding of our planet, our climate, and the cosmos