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UChicago Argonne, LLC

Argonne National Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center in Illinois, sponsored by the Department of Energy and operated by the University of Chicago through UChicago Argonne LLC. ↗

HeadquartersLemont, Illinois ↗
Founded1946 ↗
LeadershipPaul Kearns, Director ↗
OwnershipUniversity of Chicago ↗
Websitewww.anl.gov ↗

Products

  • The Advanced Photon Source is a major X-ray facility at Argonne, completed in 1995. ↗
  • The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility runs supercomputers for open science. ↗
  • The Center for Nanoscale Materials is a user facility for nanotechnology and nanomaterials research. ↗
  • ATLAS is a superconducting particle accelerator for heavy ions, used to study the atomic nucleus. ↗
  • The Electron Microscopy Center is one of three DOE-supported electron beam microcharacterization user facilities. ↗

Customers

  • The Department of Energy sponsors the laboratory. ↗