Quick Facts

• Founded: 1943
• Employees: 10,000
• Research: Accelerators and electrodynamics; bioscience, biosecurity and health; chemical science; Earth and space sciences; energy; engineering; high-energy-density plasmas and fluids; information science, computing and applied math; materials science; national security and weapons science; nuclear and particle physics; astrophysics and cosmology; and sensors and information systems
• Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico