Argonne National Laboratory
- Michael Cronin
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Argonne National Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center in Lemont, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1946, the laboratory is sponsored by the United States Department of Energy and operated by the University of Chicago through the subordinate UChicago Argonne LLC. It is the largest national laboratory in the Midwestern United States. Argonne had its beginnings in the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago, formed in part to carry out Enrico Fermi's work on nuclear reactors for the Manhattan Project during World War II...