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Brookhaven National Laboratory is a laboratory in the United States at Long Island, New York. It is on the former location of Camp Upton, a US army camp. It was opened in 1947. It is in the greater area of the town of Brookhaven. Its motto is "Passion for discovery". The Laboratory was originally owned by the Atomic Energy Commission. It is now owned by the US Department of Energy. There are about 3000 people working there. Several people there have won Nobel Prize awards.


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  • Long Island Road Map

    Location of Brookhaven National Laboratory relative to New York City

  • Soldier records, Camp Upton (LOC) (23546348723)

    Soldiers during World War I at the Camp Upton site, which would in 1947 be repurposed as BNL

  • Satoshi Ozaki 1991

    Satoshi Ozaki posed with a magnet for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in 1991

  • National Synchrotron Light Source II

    Exterior of National Synchrotron Light Source II facility in 2012, during a Brookhaven National Laboratory "Summer Sundays" public tour.

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