LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s research and development includes new energy technologies and environmental solutions with a focus on energy efficiency, electric reliability, carbon management and global climate change, and fusion. Frontier research experiences exist in nanoscience, genomics and cancer research, advanced computing, and observing matter and energy at the most fundamental level in the universe. Ernest Orlando Lawrence founded the Berkeley Lab in 1931. Lawrence is most commonly known for his invention of the cyclotron, which led to a Golden Age of particle physics—the foundation of modern nuclear science—and revolutionary discoveries about the nature of the universe. Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source is its premier national user facility centrally located on the lab site overlooking the San Francisco Bay.