IV 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1094 
Recognizing the 60th Anniversary of Argonne National Laboratory. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 6, 2006 
Mrs. BIGGERT submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Science 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing the 60th Anniversary of Argonne National 
Laboratory. 
Whereas Argonne National Laboratory was chartered in 
1946, making it the Nation’s first national laboratory; 
Whereas Argonne is a direct descendant of the University of 
Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory, where, on December 
2, 1942, a team led by Enrico Fermi, winner of the 1938 
Nobel Prize in physics for his work in nuclear reactions, 
created the world’s first controlled nuclear chain reaction; 
Whereas throughout its 60-year history, Argonne has dem-
onstrated and maintained world-class leadership in such 
fields as materials research, computer science, nuclear 
physics, nuclear energy technology, and transportation 
research and development; 
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Whereas this distinguished legacy of accomplishment includes 
three Nobel Prizes and more than 750 national and 
international awards and honors received by Argonne sci-
entists and engineers; 
Whereas today Argonne employs 2,900 staff, including 1,000 
scientists and engineers working on more than 200 
projects in basic and applied research aimed at improving 
the Nation’s energy, economic, environmental, and na-
tional security; 
Whereas Argonne is a national leader in the design, construc-
tion, and operation of large, one-of-a-kind scientific re-
search facilities, consistently delivering these facilities on 
schedule and within budget; 
Whereas Argonne’s national scientific user facilities provide 
the highest level of scientific, engineering, and technical 
support to thousands of scientists each year whose pub-
lished works continue to consistently enrich their respec-
tive research fields; 
Whereas the Advanced Photon Source provides the most bril-
liant X-ray beams in the Western Hemisphere for re-
search and is used every year by about 3,000 scientists 
to conduct research on topics ranging from combustion 
engines to nanotechnology, making it the Department of 
Energy’s most-used scientific facility; 
Whereas the Argonne Tandem-Linac Accelerator System, 
known as ‘‘ATLAS’’, provides beams of any element up 
to and including uranium for studies of the forces within 
atomic nuclei, and as such is world renowned in the phys-
ics community and annually receives three times more re-
search proposals than it can accommodate; 
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Whereas the transfer of technology developed from publicly 
funded research at Argonne to private industry has 
helped to strengthen the Nation’s economy and tech-
nology base; and 
Whereas Argonne provides a wide range of educational oppor-
tunities for faculty and students coming from institutions 
ranging from leading national universities to local junior 
high schools and thereby attracts more people to its edu-
cational programs than any other Department of Energy 
national laboratory: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) recognizes the outstanding and unique role 
that the Argonne National Laboratory has played 
over the past 60 years in the scientific and techno-
logical advancement of our Nation and of the world; 
(2) praises the Argonne National Laboratory on 
the great flexibility and foresight it has had in mov-
ing from being one of the Nation’s original promi-
nent physics laboratories to a highly diversified sci-
entific laboratory of world prominence in a variety of 
fields; 
(3) congratulates the dedicated employees at 
Argonne National Laboratory past and present who 
have worked to make the institution one of the 
greatest research resources in the world; and 
(4) encourages Argonne National Laboratory to 
continue its leadership in pushing the scientific fron-
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tiers as we work to address unprecedented chal-
lenges whose solutions are grounded in science and 
technology. 
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