Argonne National Lab

This is an amazing place to work! The Science, the People, the Culture are all fantastic! During their next Open House you should come and check out all the neat things they do!

Was quite surprised to find this place on Unilocal.As a bit of a nerd, I was very excited to visit a particle accelerated. I learned a lot on how they how they function while during my visit. They have a nice visitors center with plenty of information.
I was very lucky to have a behind the scenes tour. There are 35 beam lines, which where particles (I believe photon in this case) exit the ring. Each beam line has a different group performing a different experiment. Last year scientists working on the accelerator performed some 5,000 experiments and published 1,700 articles. They are doing serious work here!

This place shouldn’t exist. If you visit it, and tell your friends what you have acutally seen, they _​will_​look at you weird. They do things here that people just don’t do. And that’s why other people who need to do these things come from all over the world to use their stuff — for free! Yea, it’s a research thing, but nevertheless there are some corporate collusions which have brought us everything from better nylon to better medicine (better being quantitative, not necessarily qualitative). Anyhow, they give out tours, and our tour guide, Daniel West, was very helpful, if not a bit romantic, about the physics lab of ATLAS and the advanced photon source. Both of which I’m not sure exactly what they do but it has to do with things vibrating and moving real fast.

I would have never thought this place would be on Unilocal,but since its here to rate… Its a great place to do X-​Ray Crystallography because the X-​Ray source is so powerful that you can collect data faster than any regular source. There are only a few places like this in the country. The facilities are nice and the science is even better.