Success means anticipating the future and embracing the opportunities it presents.
At Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, we have done just that. While maintaining our traditional mission of pursuing energy research in its most comprehensive sense, we have positioned ourselves to play a major role in the mandate to preserve a competitive advantage for American science and technology. This brief overview attempts to illustrate, through our noteworthy successes in 1994, the ways in which LBL's people and facilities contribute to the technology life cycle that begins with a scientist's curiosity and concludes with problems solved. For our industrial and university partners, sophisticated user facilities such as our new Advanced Light Source and the National Center for Electron Microscopy provide wondrous tools for exploring the atomic world. The same methodology can be used to find impurities in products such as newly manufactured solar cells.