ORGANIZATION

Part of the US Energy Department.

Official Website:
http://www.anl.gov/

Location:
Argonne, IL

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Alexei A. Abrikosov	Physicist	25-Jun-1928		Particle physicist, explored superconductivity
Stephen D. Ban	Business	c. 1940		Argonne National Laboratory
Henry S. Bienen	Educator	5-May-1939		President, Northwestern University, 1995-2009
Robert J. Birgeneau	Educator	1942		Chancellor, UC Berkeley
Arthur H. Compton	Physicist	10-Sep-1892	15-Mar-1962	Discovered the Compton Effect
Johann Deisenhofer	Chemist	30-Sep-1943		Proteins of photosynthesis
John A. Fees	Business	c. 1957		CEO, Babcock & Wilcox Companies
Enrico Fermi	Physicist	29-Sep-1901	29-Nov-1954	First controlled nuclear chain reaction
Maria Goeppert-Mayer	Physicist	28-Jun-1906	20-Feb-1972	Shell nuclear model
Peter Grünberg	Physicist	18-May-1939		Giant magnetoresistance
William D. Phillips	Physicist	5-Nov-1948		Trapped atoms with laser light
Don Michael Randel	Educator	9-Dec-1940		President, University of Chicago, 2000-06
Hugo F. Sonnenschein	Economist	1941		President, University of Chicago, 1993-2000
Edward Teller	Physicist	15-Jan-1908	9-Sep-2003	Father of the Hydrogen Bomb
Bide L. Thomas	Business	c. 1935		President of Commonwealth Edison, 1987-92
Harold C. Urey	Chemist	29-Apr-1893	5-Jan-1981	Discovered Deuterium
B. Joseph White	Educator	6-Apr-1947		President, University of Illinois

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