January 2019 – July 2022
For the International Year of the Periodic Table, we posed this question to some kids at a recent science festival in San Francisco. See their answers in this video. Do you have a favorite element? Tweet @BerkeleyLab with #MyFaveElement.
For the International Year of the Periodic Table, we’re asking scientists what is the one element that inspires them. If it weren’t for carbon, Frances Houle, a senior staff scientist, says she would’ve been an English major! Do you have a favorite element? Tweet @BerkeleyLab with #MyFaveElement.
1943 » 2018: The flag still flies over Bowles Hall as you look west towards UC Berkeley, The Campanile, and the City of Berkeley from an area close to our Blackberry Gate entrance. View more #ThenandNow photos here!
This video kicks off a year-long celebration of the 150th anniversary of Dmitri Mendeleev’s creation of the periodic table. It highlights the Lab’s contributions to the periodic table, including the discovery of 16 elements – more than any other scientific institution.
1946: Former Associate Lab director and @NobelPrize winning chemist Glenn Seaborg in front of a chart showing isotopes of various elements. (📷: Emilio Segrè Visual Archives / American Institute of Physics) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrVzp_LlrF7/
The Lab’s online newsletter Today at Berkeley Lab has retired to make way for Elements, the Lab’s new employee news platform. Read about the history of employee communications at the Lab. https://today.lbl.gov/today-at-berkeley-lab-retires/
1949 » 2018: A view of the Bevatron particle accelerator facility under construction in 1949 and the 2018 construction of our Integrative Genomics Building, set to open this year. View more photos here.
The flag still flies over Bowles Hall as you look west towards UC Berkeley, The Campanile, and the City of Berkeley from an area close to our Blackberry Gate entrance. See more photos from our Then & Now series here » http://bit.ly/TIMEmachine http://bit.ly/TIMEmachine
Berkeley Lab news and information is now on our new employee communications platform Elements. Elements is available as an app on your mobile phone, as a news feed on your desktop, and by email. Check out the user guide to learn more.
The man behind the Lab’s Calvin Road? He was a Nobel laureate, dubbed “Mr. Photosynthesis” by Time Magazine, and aided President Kennedy on science policy.