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Article: Argonne National Laboratory The University of Chicago. (Corporate Profile).(Brief Article)
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- December 1, 2001
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Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, which manages Argonne for the U.S. Department of Energy, are partners in innovation. Together, they represent a $700 million discovery engine--the largest enterprise of its kind in the Midwest--with 25,000 researchers, engineers, students,, and staff.
Argonne National Laboratory
Funded in large part by the federal government, Argonne plays an important role in meeting national security, energy, environmental, and fundamental science objectives. Particularly notable are contributions from world-class scientific user facilities, such as the Advanced Photon Source, which Argonne built and operates. ...