Los Alamos National Laboratory
Nerve Center of a National Laboratory: A History of the Los Alamos Administration Building (1956-2006), 2010.
History of the Los Alamos National Laboratory's Administration Building. Topics cover historical context of World War II and the Cold War; overview of the property and design; administrative history and directors; the science done at the laboratory between 1956 and 2006 including nuclear weapon development, reactor technology, ENIAC and computing, bioscience and biotechnology, neutrino research, particle physics research, astrophysical explorations, earth and environmental sciences, materials science, energy research, and public health. Also contains archival photographs and blueprints.
The Los Alamos National Laboratory was founded during World War II as a secret, centralized facility to coordinate the scientific research of the Manhattan Project to develop the first nuclear weapons. The laboratory was officially known first as Site Y, and later was known as Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. The current organization is a United States Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory, managed and operated by Los Alamos National Security (LANS).
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Architecture -- Designs and plans.
Astrophysics
Biotechnology
Cold War
Computers.
Energy -- Research.
ENIAC (Computer)
Environmental sciences.
Institutional History
Materials science.
Neutrinos.
Nuclear reactors.
Nuclear weapons
Particles (Nuclear physics)
Public health.
World War, 1939-1945.
Blueprints. aat
Photographs. aat
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA