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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as AuthorPublished as SubjectLos Alamos National Laboratory
Dates
1981 – present
Authorized Form of Name
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Additional Forms of Names
L.A.N.L.
LANL
Los Alamos National Laboratories
United States. Department of Energy. Los Alamos National Laboratory
United States. Los Alamos National Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley. Los Alamos National Laboratory
Institutional History
Abstract
In 1981, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory was renamed Los Alamos National Laboratory. The Laboratory's basic mission is to maintain the safety, security, and reliability of the nation's nuclear deterrent without the need to return to underground testing. The laboratory also works on nuclear nonproliferation and border security, energy and infrastructure security, and countermeasures to nuclear and biological terrorist threats.
Laboratory directors
1981-85, Donald Kerr.
1985-97, Siegfried Hecker.
1997-03, John Browne.
2003-05, Peter Nanos.
2006-11, Michael Anastasio.
2011-present, Charles McMillan.
Important Dates
1981Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory was renamed Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos (N.M.).
1981 – 1982Edward Knapp was on staff.
1981 – 1982Mitchell Feigenbaum was on staff.
1981 – 1982David Edwards was on staff.
1981 – 1985Donald Kerr was on staff.
1981 – 1985C. Paul Robinson was on staff.
1981 – 1985Wick Haxton was on staff.
1981 – 1985John Wheatley was on staff.
1981 – 1992David Campbell was on staff.
1981 – 1994R. G. Hamish Robertson was on staff.
1981 – 1994Zachary Fisk was on staff.
1981 – 2002J. David Bowman was on staff.
1981 – 2003John Browne was on staff.
1981 – 2005Siegfried Hecker was on staff.
1981 – presentJoel Moss has been on staff.
1981 – presentGeorge Zweig has been on staff.
1982 – 1992Albert Clogston was on staff.
1992 – presentHans Frauenfelder has been on staff.
2002 – 2005G. Peter Nanos was on staff.
2006 – 2011Michael Anastasio was on staff.
Places
Headquarters
Subjects
Applied physics and engineering.
Citations
Historical information from Los Alamos National Laboratory -- Our History website (http://www.lanl.gov/about/history-innovation/index.php).
Relationships
People
Employees & Officers
Director.
Senior Fellow.
Birgeneau, Robert J. (Robert Joseph), 1942-
Member, External Advisory Committee, Physics Division.
Member, Users Association.
Staff Member, Nuclear Physics, Meson Physics Facility and Staff Member, Physics Division.
Group Leader, Nuclear Physics; Division Leader, Physics; Associate Director, Experimental Physics; Defense Researcher; Computer Science Researcher; Program Director, Energy Research; and Director.
Ulam Fellow; Staff Member, Theoretical Division; and Director, Center for Nonlinear Studies.
Member, Center for Materials Science.
Consultant.
Drell, Sidney D. (Sidney David), 1926-
Consultant.
Edwards, David F. (David Franklin)
Physicist.
Feigenbaum, Mitchell, 1944-2019
Staff member, Theoretical Physics, and Fellow.
Fellow.
Staff Member, Director, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Senior Fellow, Theory Division.
Consultant.
Consultant.
Laboratory Fellow.
Consultant.
Postdoctoral Staff Member, J. R. Oppenheimer Fellow and Staff Member.
Associate Division Leader; Deputy Division Leader; Acting Chair, Center for Materials Science; Division Leader, Center for Materials Science; Chair, Center for Materials Science; Director; and Senior Fellow.
Consultant.
Director.
Keyworth, George A., II, 1939-
Leader, Laser Fusion Division.
Leader, Accelerator Technology Division and Senior Fellow.
Kraichnan, Robert H., 1928-2008
Consultant.
Kuckuck, Robert W.
Director.
Bernd T. Matthias Scholar, Center for Materials Science.
McMillan, Charles F.
Director.
Researcher, Physics Division; Leader, Nuclear Physics Group; Leader, Medium Energy Physics Group; Deputy Division Leader, Medium Energy Physics Group; and Program Director, Nuclear and Particle Physics.
Principal Deputy Associate Director, Threat Reduction Directorate, and Director.
Member and Chair, Advisory Committee, Theoretical (T) Division; Staff Member; B. T. Matthias Visiting Scholar; S. Ulam Visiting Scholar.
Robertson, R. G. Hamish, 1943-
Staff Member; Fellow; and Scientific Director, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.
Associate Director, National Security Programs.
Consultant.
Member, Advisory Committee, Meson Physics Facility.
Consultant.
Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Center for Non-Linear Science.
Researcher and UCLA-Los Alamo Joint Fellow.
Staff Member and Fellow.
Associates & Members
Burman, Robert L., 1933-
Visiting Staff Member.
Conner, Jerry
Hoddeson, Lillian
Kidder, R. E. (Ray E.)
Consultant.
Lee, Wen Ho
Los Alamos Fellow.
Sanders, Gary H. (Gary Hilton)
Condensed Matter Fellow.
Schrieffer, J. R. (John Robert), 1931-
Fellow.
Sharp, D. H. (David Howland), 1938-
Stickley, Carlisle Martin, 1933-
Tombrello, Thomas A.
Underhill, Robert M. (Robert McKenzie)
Institutions
Institutional Hierarchy
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Name changed in 1981.
Collaborators
University of California, Berkeley. Department of Physics
Lab was originally run by the University and was led during the Manhattan Project by University professor J. Robert Oppenheimer. The University ended its direct involvement in 2006.
University of Chicago. Department of Physics
Both participated in the Manhattan Project.
Associates
University of California, Los Angeles. Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics.
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
A brief history of the Condensed Matter and Thermal Physics Group at Los Alamos, 2007.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Director's personnel files.
Archives.
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Group CRM-1, Mail Stop C-322, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Los Alamos Science special issue on Stanislaw Ulam,1987.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Los Alamos, the beginning of an era, 1943-1945, 1984.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Nerve Center of a National Laboratory: A History of the Los Alamos Administration Building (1956-2006), 2010.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interviews.
Archives.
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Group CRM-1, Mail Stop C-322, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Photographic collection.
Archives.
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Group CRM-1, Mail Stop C-322, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Special colloquium [sound recording] : Arms Control Panel / 1983 April 13.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Thirty-five years of drift-tube linac experience, Los Alamos National Laboratory, LA-10138-MS, 1984.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Subject
A brief history of the Condensed Matter and Thermal Physics Group at Los Alamos, 2007.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
DPW Reports, 1950-1987.
Manuscripts and Archives Department
Hagley Museum and Library
298 Buck Road East, Greenville, DE 19807, USA
E. A. Frieman papers, 1959-2000.
Mandeville Special Collections Library
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
Half lives [videorecording] / Nuclear Waste Documentary Project; Carolyn Jourdan, producer and director, 1995.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Lillian Hoddeson papers, 1904-2001.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Mary F. Singleton papers, 1958-2005.
parks Library. Archives of Women in Science and Engineering
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140, USA
Oral history collection, circa 1958-1984.
Cushing Memorial Library and Archives.
Texas A&M University.
College Station, TX 77843-5000, USA
Oral history interview with Carlisle Martin Stickley, 1984 September 22.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with D. H. Sharp, 1993 July 23.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Gary H. Sanders, 1998 October 16.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral History interview with Jerry Conner, 1984 April 24.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Ray E. Kidder, 2008 April 29.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Thomas Tombrello, 2010 December 26-31.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interviews. Space Science: International Sun-Earth Explorer (ISEE), 1992-1994.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Pais Prize session: the national laboratories after 1980 [sound recording], 2012 April 2.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Robert L. Burman response to 1988 Nuclear Physics Survey.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Robert M. Underhill papers.
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA
University Research Library. Department of Special Collections
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90024-1575, USA
Published Resources
Author
Beam Instrumentation Workshop : Santa Fe, NM, October 1993 / editor, Robert E. Shafer.
Los Alamos science / Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.
Project Y, the Los Alamos story.
The Laboratory's 50th anniversary : [1943-1993] / Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Subject
A convenient spy : Wen Ho Lee and the politics of nuclear espionage / Dan Stober and Ian Hoffman.