Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ORGANIZATION

Established 1943 as part of the then-secret Manhattan Project.

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

Founding Date:
1943

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

S. Malcolm Gillis Educator 28-Dec-1940 4-Oct-2015 President of Rice University, 1993-2004

Cresson H. Kearny Inventor 7-Jan-1914 18-Dec-2003 Patriot, inventor, survivalist idol

William J. Madia Scientist c. 1948 Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Thomas H. Pigford Engineer 21-Apr-1922 27-Feb-2010 Nuclear chemical engineer

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Scientist 1952 Ribosomes

Clifford G. Shull Physicist 23-Sep-1915 31-Mar-2001 Neutron scattering

Charles Varnadore Government 24-Mar-1941 7-Mar-2013 Oak Ridge National Laboratory whistleblower

Alvin M. Weinberg Physicist 20-Apr-1915 18-Oct-2006 Nuclear scientist

Eugene Wigner Physicist 17-Nov-1902 1-Jan-1995 Law of conservation of parity

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