Daresbury Laboratory
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Daresbury Laboratory is a scientific research laboratory near Daresbury in Cheshire, England, which began operations in 1962 and was officially opened on 16 June 1967 as the Daresbury Nuclear Physics Laboratory by the then Prime Minister, Harold Wilson. It is run by the Science and Technology Facilities Council with around five hundred full-time staff.
[edit] Projects
- The Synchrotron Radiation Source (SRS)
- HPCx, a supercomputer
- ALICE (accelerator), an electron accelerator previously known as ERLP (Energy Recovery Linac Prototype)
- EMMA (accelerator) an electron accelerator
- The New Light Source, a project which has evolved from the previous 4GLS project.
[edit] See also
- Alec Merrison Daresbury Laboratory's first director
- Cockcroft Institute International centre for accelerator science and technology at Daresbury Laboratory
[edit] External links
- Daresbury Laboratory
- The Science and Technology Facilities Council
- Synchrotron Radiation Source
- Accelerator Science and Technology Centre
- 4GLS - the proposed Fourth Generation Light Source
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