As we celebrate ORNL's historical achievements, our challenge is to build on Alvin Weinberg's notion of a laboratory whose mission evolves and strengthens over time. To that end, we continue to build on ORNL's historic competencies in energy, life sciences, neutron sciences and advanced materials while adding new research missions in the areas of national security and high-performance computing. Equally important, we are literally rebuilding ORNL by undertaking a $300-million modernization program that will maintain our laboratory as one of the world's leading scientific research centers.

Historical Overviews

• ORNL Review: 60 Years of Great Science
• ORNL Time Line
• ORNL: The First 50 Years (1943-1993)
• Sprinting into the New Millenium (1993-2003)
• Swords to Plowshares: A Short History of ORNL
• ORNL Directors
• ORNL Contractors

Photographs

• Historical Photo Gallery

Museum

• American Museum of Science & Energy

Historical Reports

• Analytical Chemistry Division (1990)
• Chemical Technology Division (1993)
• Classified Activities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2000)
• Engineering Technology Division (1992)
• Environmental Sciences Division (1993)
• Health and Safety Research Division (1992)
• Laboratory Protection Division (1992)
• Metals and Ceramics Division (1999)
• Plant and Equipment Division (1993)
• Research Reactors Division (1993)
• Robotics and Process Systems Division (Fuel Recycle Division) (1992)
• History of the Solid State Division (1996)
• Tower Shielding Facility and Programs (1993)
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