ORGANIZATION

Established 1943 as part of the then-secret Manhattan Project.

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

Location:
Oak Ridge, TN

Founding Date:
1943

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
S. Malcolm Gillis	Educator	28-Dec-1940	4-Oct-2015	President of Rice University, 1993-2004
Cresson H. Kearny	Inventor	7-Jan-1914	18-Dec-2003	Patriot, inventor, survivalist idol
William J. Madia	Scientist	c. 1948		Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Thomas H. Pigford	Engineer	21-Apr-1922	27-Feb-2010	Nuclear chemical engineer
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan	Scientist	1952		Ribosomes
Clifford G. Shull	Physicist	23-Sep-1915	31-Mar-2001	Neutron scattering
Charles Varnadore	Government	24-Mar-1941	7-Mar-2013	Oak Ridge National Laboratory whistleblower
Alvin M. Weinberg	Physicist	20-Apr-1915	18-Oct-2006	Nuclear scientist
Eugene Wigner	Physicist	17-Nov-1902	1-Jan-1995	Law of conservation of parity

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