11 Nobel laureates associated with Berkeley Lab

• Ernest Orlando Lawrence
• Glenn T. Seaborg
• Edwin M. McMillan
• Owen Chamberlain
• Emilio G. Segre
• Donald A. Glaser
• Melvin Calvin
• Luis W. Alvarez
• Yuan T. Lee
• Steven Chu
• George Smoot

5 national user facilities

• Advanced Light Source
• ESnet (Energy Sciences Network)
• Molecular Foundry
• National Center for Electron Microscopy
• NERSC: National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

18 scientific divisions

• Accelerator & Fusion Research Division
• Advanced Light Source
• Chemical Sciences Division
• Computational Research Division
• Computing Sciences Division
• Earth Sciences Division
• Engineering Division
• Environment, Health and Safety Division
• Environmental Energy Technologies Division
• Genomics Division
• Information Technology Division
• Joint Genome Institute
• Life Sciences Division
• Materials Sciences Division
• NERSC: National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
• Nuclear Science Division
• Physical Biosciences Division
• Physics Division

4,000 Berkeley Lab employees

$500 million annual operating budged (FY 2004)

74 years old. Founded in 1931 by Ernest Orlando Lawrence

200 acre site on the hills above UC Berkeley