Historical figures in Brookhaven National Laboratory

The atlas holds 4 people and 4 moments here, from 1902 to 1997. The most recorded lives are Nikola Tesla, Dorothy Hodgkin and Yang Chen-Ning. Among them Engineers and Inventors and Scientists, across the Cold War and the Space Age.

Notable people

1. Dorothy Hodgkin

   in 1963

   1 moment here

   English chemist and X-ray crystallographer Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin determined major biomolecular structures including penicillin, vitamin B12,…

2. Nikola Tesla

   in 1902

   1 moment here

   Serbian-American engineer and inventor best known for foundational work on alternating-current power systems, the induction motor, high-frequency…

3. Tsung-Dao Lee

   in 1997

   1 moment here

   Chinese-American theoretical physicist and 1957 Nobel laureate, known for work on parity violation, particle physics, statistical mechanics, and…

4. Yang Chen-Ning

   in 1953

   1 moment here

   Chinese-American theoretical physicist whose work in statistical mechanics, particle physics, gauge theory, and condensed-matter physics included the…

Moments

1. 1902 Wardenclyffe laboratory move Nikola Tesla
2. 1953 Visiting Brookhaven National Laboratory Yang Chen-Ning
3. 1963 Chemistry in Medicine symposium at Brookhaven Dorothy Hodgkin
4. 1997 Director of the RIKEN BNL Research Center Tsung-Dao Lee

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