19 Facts About Berkeley Lab

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, commonly referred to as Berkeley Lab, is a United States national laboratory that is owned by, and conducts scientific research on behalf of, the United States Department of Energy.

Berkeley Lab was the first to develop a large team to build big projects to make discoveries in basic research.

Berkeley Lab has six main science thrusts: advancing integrated fundamental energy science, integrative biological and environmental system science, advanced computing for science impact, discovering the fundamental properties of matter and energy, accelerators for the future, and developing energy technology innovations for a sustainable future.

Berkeley Lab's teamwork concept is a Berkeley Lab tradition that continues today.

Berkeley Lab operates five major National User Facilities for the DOE Office of Science:.

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Berkeley Lab is the lead partner in the Joint BioEnergy Institute, located in Emeryville, California.

Berkeley Lab has a major role in two DOE Energy Innovation Hubs.

Argonne National Laboratory leads JCESR and Berkeley Lab is a major partner.

Since its inception, 13 researchers associated with Berkeley Lab have been awarded either the Nobel Prize in Physics or the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Seventy Berkeley Lab scientists are members of the U S National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors for a scientist in the United States.

Thirteen Berkeley Lab scientists have won the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest award for lifetime achievement in fields of scientific research.

Eighteen Berkeley Lab engineers have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and three Berkeley Lab scientists have been elected into the National Academy of Medicine.

Nature Index rates the Berkeley Lab fifth in the world among government research organizations; it is the only one of the top six that is a single laboratory, rather than a system of laboratories.

Elements discovered by Berkeley Lab physicists include astatine, neptunium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium*, californium*, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium, lawrencium*, dubnium, and seaborgium*.

Arthur Rosenfeld, a senior scientist at Berkeley Lab, was a prominent advocate for energy efficiency from 1975 until his death in 2017.

Berkeley Lab led efforts at the Lab that produced several technologies that radically improved efficiency: compact fluorescent lamps, low-energy refrigerators, and windows that trap heat.

Berkeley Lab established the Center for Building Science at the Lab, which developed into the Building Technology and Urban Systems Division.

Berkeley Lab developed the first energy-efficiency standards for buildings and appliances in California, which helped the state to sustain constant electricity use per capita, a phenomenon called the Rosenfeld effect.

Carl Haber and Vitaliy Fadeyev of Berkeley Lab developed the IRENE system for optical scanning of audio discs and cylinders.