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Andrew Miskowiec

ORNL is proud of its role in fostering the next generation of scientists and engineers. We bring in talented young researchers, team them with accomplished scientists and engineers, and put them to work at the lab's one-of-a-kind facilities. The result is research that makes us proud and prepar...

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ORNL early-career award-winner Travis Humble promotes quantum computing at the lab.

Guinevere Shaw

"I chose a career in science for my innate curiosity for something much bigger than myself."

ORNL winners of the 2016 Early Career Research Program award from DOE's Office of Science, from left: Melanie Mayes, Travis Humble, Clayton Webster, and Wellington Muchero. Image credit: Carlos Jones, ORNL

ORNL prepares young researchers to lead ORNL’s Olga Ovchinnikova saw an opportunity early this year during a one-on-one meeting with Thomas Zacharia. Zacharia, the lab’s deputy for science and technology, makes a point of sitting down with young scientists. Ovchinnikova, a chemical physicist i...

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Although the neutron is a senior citizen of sorts, whose existence was predicted in 1920 and confirmed in 1932, it’s still not fully understood.

It was James Chadwick of Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory who, after nearly a decade of experimentation, devised a method to detect these particles, whi...

Pranab Roy Chowdhury

"Science enables me to comprehend the world around me!"

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Refrigerators using the magnetocaloric effect will be both greener and more energy efficient than conventional appliances.