"Since my dad bought me my first toolbox at a young age, I have been fascinated with STEM."

"I chose a career in science because it gives new perspectives on how to think about the world."

"Many topics interest me, and collaborative research presents me opportunities to develop interdisciplinary solutions to global issues."

"I have always been amazed by the level of scientific progress and resources driven by ORNL."

"Growing up in China, I was passionate about how science and technology could revolutionize the world."

Studies on the structure of RNA were done at ORNL in the early 1950s by biologist Elliot “Ken” Volkin and biochemist Waldo Cohn. They used radioisotope and chromatography techniques that were originally developed for plutonium production at the laboratory’s Graphite Reactor during World War II.

Thomas Friedman is an award-winning journalist and author. In nearly four decades with the New York Times, he has won three Pulitzer Prizes, the first in 1983 for coverage of the war in Lebanon, the second in 1988 for coverage of Israel, and the third in 2002 for commentary on the impact of terroris...