online medical dictionary | definition of Lawrence

<person>

Preferred term: Henderson, Lawrence

<person>

Preferred term: Hogben, Lawrence

Preferred term: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

<organisation>

(LLNL) A research organaisatin operated by the University of California under a contract with the US Department of Energy. LLNL was founded on 2 September 1952 at the site of an old World War II naval air station.

The Lab employs researchers from many scientific and engineering disciplines. Some of its departments are the National Ignition Facility, the Human Genome Center, the ASCI Tera-Scale Computing partnership, the Computer Security Technology Center, and the Site 300 Experimental Test Facility. Other research areas are Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Automation and Robotics, Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Energy Research, Engineering, Environmental Science, Fusion, Geology and Geophysics, Health, Lasers and Optics, Materials Science, National Security, Physics, Sensors and Instrumentation, Space Science.

LLNL also works with industry in research and licensing projects. At the end of fiscal year 1995, the lab had signed agreements for 193 cost-shared research projects involving 201 companies and worth nearly $600m.

MORE.

Address: Fremont, California, USA.

Acronym: LLNL

(01 Feb 1996)

<person>

A 20th century English physician.

See: Lawrence-Seip syndrome.

(05 Mar 2000)

<syndrome>

Preferred term: lipoatrophy