 Aerial photo of the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory. Argonne National Laboratory is one of the United States government's oldest and largest science and engineering research national laboratories and is the second largest in the Midwest, behind Fermilab. Since the founding of the lab in 1946 the University of Chicago has overseen its operations for the United States Department of Energy and its predecessor agencies. It is located on 1,700 acres (6.9 km²) in DuPage County, 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Chicago, Illinois on Interstate Highway 55. When it was first established it was known as the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory (Met Lab) and it was previously located within Red Gate Woods. Early on the lab was part of the Manhattan Project which built America's first Atomic Bomb. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1030x1280, 676 KB) Aerial photo of the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory. ...
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The government of the United States, established by the United States Constitution, is a federal republic of 50 states, a few territories and some protectorates. ...
The United States Department of Energy National Laboratories are a system of research facilities and laboratories funded and controlled by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) for the purpose advancing science and aiding in the economic and defensive national interests of the United States of America. ...
The Midwest is a common name for a region of the United States of America. ...
Fermilabs Tevatron Robert Rathbun Wilson Hall Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located in Batavia near Chicago, Illinois, (Google Sat Map) is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics, operated for the Department of Energy by the Universities Research Association (URA). ...
The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. ...
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government responsible for energy policy and nuclear safety. ...
DuPage County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. ...
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Interstate 55 (abbreviated I-55) is an interstate highway in the central United States. ...
The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. ...
The Metallurgical Laboratory or Met Lab at the University of Chicago was part of the World War II–era Manhattan Project, created by the United States to develop an atomic bomb. ...
Red Gate Woods is a forest preserve within the Palos Division of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, Illinois. ...
The Manhattan Project resulted in the development of the first nuclear weapons, and the first-ever nuclear detonation, at the Trinity test of July 16, 1945. ...
The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the epicenter. ...
Argonne has four major mission areas, each of which fulfills important governmental and Department of Energy responsibilities, as well as provides important benefits to society at large. They are:
- Conducting basic scientific research to further our understanding of the world we live in. Argonne conducts basic experimental and theoretical scientific research in the physical, life, and environmental sciences.
- Operating national scientific facilities to help advance America's scientific leadership. Argonne operates world-class research facilities like the Advanced Photon Source.
- Enhancing the nation's energy resources to ensure America's energy future. Argonne is working to develop and evaluate advanced energy technologies.
- Developing better ways to manage environmental problems. Argonne is at the forefront in developing new ways to manage and solve the nation's environmental problems and to promote environmental stewardship.
Argonne scientists and engineers consider it their responsibility to help the public understand science and to enhance American science, engineering, and mathematics education by helping to train nearly 1,000 college graduate students and post-doctoral researchers every year as part of their normal research and development activities. A scientific method or process is considered fundamental to the scientific investigation and acquisition of new knowledge based upon physical evidence. ...
Physical science is an encompassing term for the branches of natural science, and science (generally), that study non-living systems, in contrast to the biological sciences. ...
Biology studies the variety of life (clockwise from top-left) E. coli, tree fern, gazelle, Goliath beetle Biology is the science of life (from the Greek words bios = life and logos = word). ...
jecca is very beautiful!! Environmental science is the study of the interactions among the physical, chemical and biological components of the environment; with a focus on pollution and degradation of the environment related due to human activities; and the impact on biodiversity and sustainability from local and global development. ...
The Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory is a national synchrotron_radiation light source research facility funded by the United States Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences. ...
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Significant portions of the 1996 chase movie Chain Reaction were filmed in the Zero-Gradient Synchrotron ring room and the former Continuous Wave Deuterium Demonstrator laboratory.[1] Chain Reaction is a 1996 film starring Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Morgan Freeman and Fred Ward. ...
White Deer at Argonne Visitors to Argonne National Laboratory-East are sometimes startled by the white deer roaming the site and occasionally speculate on the nature of the experiment that produced their unusual coloring. In TV series The Territory of White Deer a group of children tries to hunt a villain threatening species of a local Deer Park (filmed in Deer Park Žehušice). ...
But the deer are perfectly normal fallow deer (Dama dama), a naturally light-colored species native to North Africa, Europe and parts of Asia. There are about 40 on the Argonne site. The white deer herd began as a herd of 38 animals roaming the estate of Gustav Freund, inventor of "skinless" casings for hot dogs. It had grown from eight or nine, a gift or purchase from Chicago clothier Maurice L. Rothchild.
A heavy snowstorm in the late 1930s forced the deer to forage in the estate's fruit orchard. The Freunds preferred fresh fruit to the deer, so many were given away to parks and zoos. Those that remained were destroyed by the local game warden. All, that is, except two does. One gave birth to a buck, and the herd began to grow in number again.
Born a creamy tan with white spots, the deer become white after reaching their first year. Bucks' antlers are "palmated" - wide and flat like those of moose - and are shed each April or May. The bucks stand about four feet high at the shoulder. Bucks can use their antlers as a slashing weapon, but fights between males are mostly shoving matches in which the deer lower their heads and lock antlers. The Argonne Fire Department has been called out to separate bucks with hopelessly locked headgear. Binomial name Alces alces (Linnaeus, 1758) Moose range map The moose (so named in North America) or elk (in Europe), Alces alces, is the largest member of the deer family Cervidae, distinguished from the others by the palmate antlers of its males. ...
Except for the mating season, the bucks and does maintain separate groupings. Sometimes large groups may be seen at one time in a clearing, usually in the early morning.
The deer roam freely on the Argonne site. Sometimes they wander through the entrances and end up as far away as Lockport, 12 miles from the laboratory, and Fermilab, 17 miles away. But most stay within the laboratory's confines. Argonne does not own the deer, or feed them. Fermilabs Tevatron Robert Rathbun Wilson Hall Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located in Batavia near Chicago, Illinois, (Google Sat Map) is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics, operated for the Department of Energy by the Universities Research Association (URA). ...
The laboratory is also home to about 60 native white-tailed deer, commonly referred to at Argonne as "brown deer" to distinguish them from their light-colored cousins. The two species tolerate each other. They tend not to compete for food: whitetails are browsers, eating mostly leaves, while the fallow deer are grazers, partial to the abundant mown grass on the site. White-tailed and fallow deer cannot interbreed.
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