Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

body (LLNL) A research organaisatin operated by the

University of California under a contract with the US

Department of Energy. LLNL was founded on 2 September 1952 at

the site of an old World War II naval air station.

The Lab employs researchers from many scientific and

engineering disciplines. Some of its departments are the

National Ignition Facility, the Human Genome Center, the ASCI

Tera-Scale Computing partnership, the Computer Security

Technology Center, and the Site 300 Experimental Test

Facility. Other research areas are Astronomy and

Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Automation and Robotics,

Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Energy Research, Engineering,

Environmental Science, Fusion, Geology and Geophysics, Health,

Lasers and Optics, Materials Science, National Security,

Physics, Sensors and Instrumentation, Space Science.

LLNL also works with industry in research and licensing

projects. At the end of fiscal year 1995, the lab had signed

agreements for 193 cost-shared research projects involving 201

companies and worth nearly $600m.

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Address: Fremont, California, USA.

(1996-10-30)