research-institute.bigb
= Research institute
= Research institute model
{parent=Research institute}
= Focused research organization
{parent=Research institute model}
* https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2023/03/17/why-billionaires-ken-griffin-and-eric-schmidt-are-spending-50-million-on-a-new-kind-of-scientific-research/
* https://www.institute.global/insights/tech-and-digitalisation/new-model-science
* https://www.convergentresearch.org/
= Biology research institute
{parent=Research institute}
= Allen Institute
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{parent=Biology research institute}
{tag=Paul Allen}
{title2=2003}
{wiki}
= Allen Institute research project
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{parent=Allen Institute}
= Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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{parent=Biology research institute}
{wiki}
A hot hot place.
= DNA Learning Center
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{parent=Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory}
{wiki=Dolan_DNA_Learning_Center}
https://www.youtube.com/user/DNALearningCenter/about
https://dnalc.cshl.edu/
= Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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{parent=Biology research institute}
{wiki}
= Janelia Research Campus
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{parent=Howard Hughes Medical Institute}
{title2=1996-}
{title2=Virgina, USA}
{wiki}
= J. Craig Venter Institute
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{parent=Biology research institute}
{title2=2006-}
{title2=San Diego, California}
{wiki}
= JCVI
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{synonym}
{title2}
Founded by <Craig Venter> by joining up other existing institutes.
= Medical Research Council
{parent=Biology research institute}
{wiki=Medical_Research_Council_(United_Kingdom)}
= MRC
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{synonym}
{title2}
= MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
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{parent=Medical Research Council}
{title2=Cambridge, UK}
{wiki}
These people don't fuck around.
= National Institute for Medical Research
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{parent=Medical Research Council}
{title2=1913-2015}
{title2=London}
{wiki}
= Francis Crick Institute
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{parent=Medical Research Council}
{title2=2010-}
{title2=London}
{wiki}
= WEHI
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{parent=Biology research institute}
{wiki}
= Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
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{synonym}
{title2}
Poor renaming choice.
= WEHImovies
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{parent=WEHI}
{title2=wehi.tv}
https://www.youtube.com/user/WEHImovies
Fantastic <animations of molecular biology processes>.
https://www.wehi.edu.au/wehi-tv
https://wehi.tv redirects to https://www.wehi.edu.au/wehi-tv[].
= Drew Berry
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{parent=WEHImovies}
{wiki}
This is the dude that made many of the amazing <WEHImovies> animation.
Unfortunately, the process appears to be quite manual and laborious, more art than simulation, based on the software list used: https://www.drewberry.com/faq
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFCvkkDSfIU]
{title=Animations of unseeable biology by <Drew Berry> (2021)}
{description=Presented at <TED (conference)>.}
= Company research institute
{parent=Research institute}
Ah, some of the coolest places on Earth?
= Bell Labs
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{parent=Company research institute}
{tag=Company research institute}
{title2=1941-}
{wiki}
<Ciro Santilli> sometimes fantasizes of having worked there in their golden years...
Original headquarters and laboratories: 463 West Street in <New York>, <Manhattan> area. On <Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman> Feynman mentions that in 1941 they could see the construction of the George Washington Bridge, presumably from that building, when <William Shockley> brought him over to visit to get a job there. However, the actual
Later:
* 1967 <Bell Labs Murray Hill>
Some interesting videos:
* <video The Story of Light by Bell Labs (2015)>
= Bell Labs Holmdel
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{parent=Company research institute}
{title2=1929-2007}
= Bell Labs Holmdel Complex
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{parent=Company research institute}
{title2=1962-2007}
{wiki}
101 Crawfords Corner Rd Holmdel, NJ 07733 USA
It started with <radio> research apparently, including <Karl Guthe Jansky>.
They had a smaller building first: https://youtu.be/BPq_ZyOvbsg?t=51 and in 1962 opened the large new building.
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPq_ZyOvbsg]
{title=Holmdel 20th Anniversary by AT&T Tech Channel (1982)}
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_-UQr5HKvg]
{title=N.J.’s historic Bell Labs complex brought back to life as Bell Works by nj.com (2022)}
{description=Shows the renewed building after the <Bell Labs Holmdel Complex> closure.}
= Bell Labs Murray Hill
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{parent=Company research institute}
600 Mountain Ave bldg 5, New Providence, NJ 07974, <United States>.
Became headquarters in 1967,
Drone footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Ld2KFjaC8 Bell LABS Headquarters Murray Hill NJ in 4K Drone Flight by ESTOUCHFPV (2017)
Notable inventions made there:
* the first <transistor>
* TODO confirm <C (programming language)>
= Skunk Works
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{parent=Company research institute}
{wiki}
= Physics research institute
{parent=Research institute}
= Physics research institute by country
{parent=Research institute}
= American physics research institute
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{parent=Physics research institute by country}
{tag=United States}
= National Institute of Standards and Technology
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{parent=American physics research institute}
{wiki}
= NIST
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{synonym}
{title2}
These people are serious.
= United States Department of Energy
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{parent=American physics research institute}
{title2=DoE}
{wiki}
= United States Department of Energy national laboratory
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{parent=United States Department of Energy}
{wiki}
Where <nuclear weapons> and <nuclear power>, and a ton of derived research is made.
For a fun and brief random <software> encounter with that universe, see the VisIt section of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5854515/interactive-large-plot-with-20-million-sample-points-and-gigabytes-of-data/55967461#55967461[].
= Argonne National Laboratory
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{parent=United States Department of Energy national laboratory}
{wiki}
This is where they moved the <Chicago Pile-1> after they decided it might be a bad idea to run <Chicago Pile-1>[highly experimental nuclear reactions] right in the middle of one of the most populous cities of the <United States>.
After it was reassembled, the <Chicago Pile-1> was renamed as Chicago Pile 2 (CP2).
So more precisely, it is a continuation of the <Metallurgical Laboratory>.
It's still not that far though, only about 20 kilometers, and today is also a populated area.
<Ciro Santilli> maintains that they chose the site because the name is so cool. Wikipedia says it is derived from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_of_Argonne[Forest of Argonne], maybe it even shared etymology with the element <argon>.
= Fermilab
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{parent=United States Department of Energy national laboratory}
{tag=Particle accelerator facility}
{wiki}
= Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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{parent=United States Department of Energy national laboratory}
{wiki}
= LLNL
{synonym}
{title2}
Founded partly due to the influence of <Edward Teller> who thought <Los Alamos National Laboratory> was not making good progress on <thermonuclear weapons>, large part of which was developed there.
= Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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{parent=United States Department of Energy national laboratory}
{wiki}
= ORNL
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{synonym}
{title2}
= Oak Ridge
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{synonym}
Located in <Tennessee> in the East of the <United States>.
The precursor organization to <ORNL> was called <Clinton Engineer Works>, where groundbreaking <Manhattan Project> experiments and nuclear production took place during <World War II>
Some key experiments carried out there include:
* 1943: <X-10 Graphite Reactor>: prototype <Plutonium> <breeder reactor>
* <isotope separation> to purify <Uranium-235>:
*
= Y-12 electromagnetic separation plant
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{parent=Oak Ridge National Laboratory}
= K-25
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{parent=Oak Ridge National Laboratory}
= S-50 liquid thermal diffusion plant
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{parent=Oak Ridge National Laboratory}
= X-10 Graphite Reactor
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{parent=Oak Ridge National Laboratory}
{tag=Breeder reactor}
{title2=1943-11-04}
{title2=second nuclear reactor}
{wiki}
This was an intermediate step between the <nuclear chain reaction> prototype <Chicago Pile-1> and the full blown <plutonium> mass production at <Hanford site>. Located in the <Oak Ridge National Laboratory>.
\Image[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Exterior_of_the_Graphite_Reactor_at_the_X-10_site_in_Oak_Ridge_in_1950.jpg/742px-Exterior_of_the_Graphite_Reactor_at_the_X-10_site_in_Oak_Ridge_in_1950.jpg?20151212105410]
{title=Exterior of the <X-10 Graphite Reactor> in 1950}
\Image[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/X10_Reactor_Face.jpg]
{title=Workers loading <Uranium> into the <X-10 Graphite Reactor> with a rod}
= Clinton Engineer Works
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{parent=Oak Ridge National Laboratory}
{title2=CEW}
{wiki}
Precursor organization to the <Oak Ridge National Laboratory>, name that it took in January 1948.
Produced the <enriched uranium> used for <Little Boy>, located in the area/predecessor of <Oak Ridge National Laboratory>.
\Image[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Y-12_Shift_Change.jpg]
{title=<Y-12 electromagnetic separation plant>[Y-12] shift change photograph}
{description=
At the back, a poster reads:
\Q[Make C.E.W. count: continue to protect project information]
What a fantastic picture!
}
= National Nuclear Security Administration
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{parent=United States Department of Energy national laboratory}
{wiki}
= NNSA
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{synonym}
{title2}
= NNSA laboratory
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{parent=National Nuclear Security Administration}
= Los Alamos National Laboratory
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{parent=NNSA laboratory}
{title2=1943-}
{tag=Los Alamos}
{wiki}
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axkQ4UjTc8M]
{title=Historic <Manhattan Project> Sites at <Los Alamos> by <Los Alamos National Lab>}
Historian Alan B. Carr:
* https://www.youtube.com/@AlanBCarr[]. IMPORTANT NOTE: Although Alan B. Carr is a <Los Alamos National Laboratory> (LANL) employee, this page has absolutely no formal connection with LANL.
= LA-UR
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{parent=Los Alamos National Laboratory}
= Los Alamos Unlimited Release
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{synonym}
{title2}
Publicly released documents from the <Los Alamos National Laboratory> are marked with this identifier. This is for example the case of each video on ther <YouTube Channel>: https://www.youtube.com/@LosAlamosNationalLab[]. E.g. <video Historic, unique Manhattan Project footage from Los Alamos by Los Alamos National Lab> is marked with "LA-UR 11-4449".
https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1372821 contains "How to Get an LA-UR: Using RASSTI to Release Your Work" which is of interest: https://permalink.lanl.gov/object/tr?what=info:lanl-repo/lareport/LA-UR-17-26023[]. That document documents the acronym's expansion, plus it leaks some internal-only URLs such as http://lasearch.lanl.gov/oppie/service[].
TODO is there somewhere you can search for the document for a given identifier? Some PDFs are listed at: https://sgp.fas.org/othergov/doe/lanl/index2b.html
= Los Alamos Laboratory
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{parent=Los Alamos National Laboratory}
{wiki}
= Los Alamos National Lab
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{synonym}
= LANL
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{synonym}
{title2}
<Los Alamos Laboratory> was the name of the <Los Alamos National Laboratory> site during the <Manhattan Project>, before it was renamed to <Los Alamos National Laboratory>.
= LANL PF-4
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{parent=Los Alamos Laboratory}
= Sandia National Laboratories
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{parent=NNSA laboratory}
{wiki}
= Sandia
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{synonym}
= British physics research institute
{c}
{parent=Physics research institute by country}
{tag=United Kingdom}
= National Physical Laboratory
{c}
{parent=British physics research institute}
{title2=1900-}
{wiki=National_Physical_Laboratory_(United_Kingdom)}
= French physics research institute
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{parent=Physics research institute by country}
{tag=France}
= CEA
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{parent=French physics research institute}
{title2=1945}
{wiki=French_Alternative_Energies_and_Atomic_Energy_Commission}
= French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission
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{synonym}
{title2}
\Image[https://web.archive.org/web/20240403193318im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/LOGO_CEA_ORIGINAL.svg/512px-LOGO_CEA_ORIGINAL.svg.png]
{title=<CEA> 2012 logo}
= CEA Paris-Saclay
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{parent=CEA}
{wiki}
Centerpiece of the <CEA> since the beginning of the <french nuclear weapons program>, headquarters since 2006.
As of 2023 the place was blurred on <Google Maps> staellite view, no wonder.
\Image[https://web.archive.org/web/20230130023318im_/https://www.cea.fr/paris-saclay/PublishingImages/Pages/CEA%20Paris-Saclay/bilan_environnemental_plan_saclay_redim.jpg]
{source=https://www.cea.fr/paris-saclay/Pages/CEA-Paris-Saclay/histoire/histoire-de-saclay.aspx}