Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is a federally funded research and development center in the hills of Berkeley, California, United States. Established in 1931 by the University of California (UC), the laboratory is sponsored by the United States Department of Energy and administered by the UC system. Ernest Lawrence, who won the Nobel prize for inventing the cyclotron, founded the Lab and served as its Director until his death in 1958. Located in the Berkeley Hills, the lab overlooks the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
The lab's Molecular Foundry and surrounding buildings
The Advanced Light Source and surrounding buildings
The Integrative Genomics Building, home to the Joint Genome Institute
The Molecular Foundry
Berkeley is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and Emeryville to the south and the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington to the north. Its eastern border with Contra Costa County generally follows the ridge of the Berkeley Hills. The 2020 census recorded a population of 124,321.
Looking west over the city from the Berkeley Hills, with San Francisco in the background
This pit in the surface of a rock at Indian Rock Park is typical of those used by the Ohlone people to grind acorns.
Berkeley and much of the East Bay was part of Rancho San Antonio, granted to the Peralta family in 1820.
Horses Grazing, Berkeley; painted by artist William Hahn in 1875