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The Berkeley location became Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in 1971, [92] [93] although many continued to call it the RadLab. Gradually, another shortened form came into common usage, LBL. Its formal name was amended to Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1995, when "National" was added to the names of all DOE labs.
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The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — a United States Department of Energy national laboratory affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, ...
The Livermore lab was not officially severed administratively from the Berkeley lab until 1971. To this day, in official planning documents and records, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is designated as Site 100, Lawrence Livermore National Lab as Site 200, and LLNL's remote test location as Site 300. [9]
LBNL – (organization) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; LBT – (telescope) Large Binocular Telescope; LBV – (celestial object) luminous blue variable, a type of very bright variable star; LCDM – (astrophysics terminology) Lambda cold dark matter, any model for structure formation in the universe that includes dark energy. also ΛCDM
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, formerly Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory; Liberal Mid-America Regional Airport, IATA code LBL; Long base line sonar; Landsforeningen for Bøsser og Lesbiske, former name of LGBT Danmark; Layer by layer, a thin film fabrication technique; Layer by Layer, a Rubik's cube solving technique; London Borough of Lambeth
In the 2003 film The Hulk, a model of the Gamma Sphere, built at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a detector of gamma rays, is used as the powerful source of gamma rays. [52] The Hulk ends up hurling it through the iconic dome of the Advanced Light Source, which was designed by Arthur Brown Jr. around 1940 for the 184-inch cyclotron.
The National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) was a U.S. Department of Energy national user facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, for unclassified scientific research using advanced electron microscopy. It has since been merged with the Molecular Foundry, also located at Berkeley Lab.