Brookhaven National Laboratory is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory located in Upton, New York, formally established in 1947 at the site of Camp Upton, a former U.S. Army base on Long Island. The effort to create it was fostered largely by the physicists Isidor Isaac Rabi and Norman Foster Ramsey Jr, and it is operated by a nonprofit corporation formed in 1946 from nine research universities: Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Rochester and Yale.
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Founded YearSourced to the subject's own account FounderNo single founder; a nonprofit corporation of nine research universities (Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Rochester and Yale) formed in March 1946, with the effort fostered largely by physicists Isidor Isaac Rabi and Norman Foster Ramsey Jr 1 Sourced to the subject's own accountNo individual is credited as founder; the laboratory was established by a consortium of universities to operate a shared postwar nuclear-research facility. SeatSourced to the subject's own accountUpton, New York, United States 1 Connections
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Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory located in Upton, New York.
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formally established in 1947 at the site of Camp Upton, a former U.S. Army base on Long Island.
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is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory located in Upton, New York, a hamlet of the Town of Brookhaven
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Infobox workplaces: Cavendish Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory
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Infobox workplaces: Monsanto; Brookhaven National Laboratory; University of Pennsylvania
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Infobox workplaces: Brookhaven National Laboratory; Stanford University; Columbia University
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