Oak Ridge National Laboratory

…the Clinton Engineer Works (now Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where he supervised the production of plutonium for the Manhattan Project. Like Albert Einstein and other scientists who had been instrumental in the development of the atomic bomb, Brown later spoke out against the further development of nuclear…

…reactor technology were established by Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and by Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. These schools were the forerunners of the first academic departments and degree programs established in the 1950s and ’60s by colleges and universities around the United States, including North Carolina State University,…