Argonne National Laboratory

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Argonne National Laboratory

ORGANIZATION

Official Website:
http://www.anl.gov/

Location:
Argonne, IL

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Alexei A. Abrikosov Physicist 25-Jun-1928 Particle physicist, explored superconductivity

Stephen D. Ban Business c. 1940 Argonne National Laboratory

Henry S. Bienen Educator 5-May-1939 President, Northwestern University, 1995-2009

Robert J. Birgeneau Educator 1942 Chancellor, UC Berkeley

Arthur H. Compton Physicist 10-Sep-1892 15-Mar-1962 Discovered the Compton Effect

Johann Deisenhofer Chemist 30-Sep-1943 Proteins of photosynthesis

John A. Fees Business c. 1957 CEO, Babcock & Wilcox Companies

Enrico Fermi Physicist 29-Sep-1901 29-Nov-1954 First controlled nuclear chain reaction

Maria Goeppert-Mayer Physicist 28-Jun-1906 20-Feb-1972 Shell nuclear model

Peter Grünberg Physicist 18-May-1939 Giant magnetoresistance

William D. Phillips Physicist 5-Nov-1948 Trapped atoms with laser light

Don Michael Randel Educator 9-Dec-1940 President, University of Chicago, 2000-06

Hugo F. Sonnenschein Economist 1941 President, University of Chicago, 1993-2000

Edward Teller Physicist 15-Jan-1908 9-Sep-2003 Father of the Hydrogen Bomb

Bide L. Thomas Business c. 1935 President of Commonwealth Edison, 1987-92

Harold C. Urey Chemist 29-Apr-1893 5-Jan-1981 Discovered Deuterium

B. Joseph White Educator 6-Apr-1947 President, University of Illinois

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