75th Anniversary | Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne National Laboratory was founded in 1946 to harness the power of nuclear reactions for peaceful energy purposes. By 2021 Argonne had grown into one of the country’s largest science laboratories, with thousands of employees working with partners in industry and academia to tackle pressing challenges in science, energy, climate, health and medicine, and national security.

Argonne celebrated its milestone 75^th anniversary throughout 2021. A series of virtual events, stories, videos, audio and multimedia features, and acts of kindness in our communities marked our celebration of 75 years of accelerating science and technology for U.S. prosperity and security.

Follow the links on this page to learn more about Argonne’s past, present and future as recorded in 2021 on the occasion of the Lab’s diamond anniversary.

Woman sitting at switchboard. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

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The age of exascale and the future of supercomputing

Argonne looks to exascale and beyond, sorting out the relationship between computing and experimental facilities, the need for speed and AI’s role in making it all work.

Cosmology, Computational Biology, Computational Cosmology

Mirror image of clouds next to roadway construction. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

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Argonne is helping communities avoid the climate crosshairs

Scientists are addressing the vulnerabilities of infrastructure systems through the lens of climate impacts by creating and adapting climate maps to infrastructure as a way for communities to protect themselves from the effects of climate change.

Environmental and Earth Science, Climate Science, Infrastructure

Argonne researchers are using the laboratory’s Advanced Photon Source to discover the structure of viral proteins using X-ray crystallography. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

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Bringing discoveries to light: X-ray science at Argonne

For more than 25 years, the Advanced Photon Source’s intense X-rays have enabled important breakthroughs. With a massive upgrade in the works, scientists will be able to see things at scale never seen before.

Accelerator Science and Engineering, Computational Science, Computational X-Ray Science

Large telescope, blue sky background. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)

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Curiosity and technology drive quest to reveal fundamental secrets of the universe

Argonne-driven technology is part of a broad initiative to answer fundamental questions about the birth of matter in the universe and the building blocks that hold it all together.

Accelerator Science and Engineering, Cosmology, Computational Astrophysics

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