Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is a federally funded research and development center in the hills of Berkeley, California, United States. Established in 1931 by the University of California (UC), the laboratory is sponsored by the United States Department of Energy and administered by the UC system.[4] Ernest Lawrence, who won the Nobel prize for inventing the cyclotron, founded the Lab and served as its Director until his death in 1958. Located in the Berkeley Hills, the lab overlooks the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
Motto
Bringing science solutions to the world
August 26, 1931
Scientific research and energy technologies
3,663[2]
800
1 Cyclotron Road
Berkeley, California, United States
37°52′33″N 122°14′55″W / 37.87583°N 122.24861°W
200 acres (81 ha)
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Operations and governance[edit]
The University of California operates Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory under a contract with the Department of Energy. The site consists of 76 buildings (owned by the U.S. Department of Energy) located on 200 acres (0.81 km2) owned by the university in the Berkeley Hills. Altogether, the Lab has 3,663 UC employees, of whom about 800 are students or postdocs, and each year it hosts more than 3,000 participating guest scientists. There are approximately two dozen DOE employees stationed at the laboratory to provide federal oversight of Berkeley Lab's work for the DOE. The laboratory director, Michael Witherell, is appointed by the university regents and reports to the university president. Although Berkeley Lab is governed by UC independently of the Berkeley campus, the two entities are closely interconnected:[92] more than 200 Berkeley Lab researchers hold joint appointments as UC Berkeley faculty.
The laboratory budget was $1.17 billion dollars in fiscal year 2022, while the total obligations were $1.45 billion.[1]