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People
Total employees: 13,137
Triad National Security, LLC: 9,397
Centerra Group, LLC Los Alamos (Guard Force): 281
Compa, Staff and support contractors: 478
Students: 1,323
Unionized craft workers: 1,160
Post doctoral researchers: 498
Place
Located 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on 34.7 square miles of DOE-owned property.
1,280 individual facilities, including 47 technical areas with 9 million square feet under roof.
Replacement value of $14.2 billion
Budget
FY17:
63% Weapons programs
10% Nonproliferation programs
4% Safeguards and Security
7% Environmental Management
4% DOE Office of Science
3% Energy and other programs
9% Work for Others
Demographics
Triad and students only
35% of employees live in Los Alamos, the remainder commute from Santa Fe, Española, Taos and Albuquerque.
Average Age: 43
65% male, 35% female
45% minorities
67% university degrees
27% hold undergraduate degrees
19% hold master’s degrees
21% have earned a PhD
Awards
145 R&D100 awards
34 E.O. Lawrence Awards
9 Presidential Early Career Awards
3 Glenn Seaborg Medals
Edward Teller Medal
Nobel Prize in Physics, Frederick Reines
Directions
Albuquerque to Los Alamos, NM
98 miles; 1 hr, 51 min.
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As of Aug. 18, 2020
New research shows that Mars did not dry up all at once - 4/8/21
HAWC Gamma Ray Observatory discovers origin of highest-energy cosmic rays in the galaxy - 3/11/21
SuperCam sends first data back to Earth from the Perseverance Mars rover - 3/11/21
First health checks of SuperCam on Mars - 3/9/21
Public invited to Mars rover landing virtual after-party - 2/16/21
Perseverance rover takes New Mexico to Mars - 2/16/21
Multi-messenger astronomy offers new estimates of the size of neutron stars and the rate of the universe’s expansion - 12/21/20
Rare ‘superbolt’ flashes found to be 1,000 times brighter than normal lightning - 11/12/20
New Los Alamos National Laboratory spin-off aims to put nuclear reactors in space - 11/2/20
What it takes to shoot a laser on Mars - 9/16/20
What could desert rocks tell us about life on Mars? - 9/3/20
Life after landing on Mars - 8/27/20
Searching Mars for signatures of life - 8/20/20
Podcast explains how plutonium powers Mars exploration - 8/13/20
Simulating crash into asteroid reveals its heavy metal psyche - 8/10/20
Take a guided ‘tour’ of SuperCam on the new Mars rover - 8/6/20
Was there life on Mars? New podcast explores instruments aboard Mars rover - 7/29/20
New Mars rover tool will zap rocks to investigate planet’s past habitability - 7/27/20
Space weather model gives earlier warning of satellite-killing radiation storms - 3/2/20
Ancient oasis once existed on Mars - 10/7/19
All-woman team commands rock-zapping laser on Mars - 6/10/19
New model accurately predicts harmful space weather - 4/9/19
Newly detected microquasar gamma-rays ‘call for new ideas’ - 10/4/18
New space instrument goes for a spin - 9/27/18
‘Game changing’ space-mission power system passes tests with flying colors - 5/2/18
Public lectures explore powering space missions on Mars - 3/26/18
While earthlings take a break, the Mars rover keeps working - 12/21/17
Observatory in Mexico sheds light on origin of excess positrons in outer space - 11/16/17
Los Alamos gains role in High-Performance Computing for Materials Program - 9/21/17
Pew! Pew! Curiosity’s ChemCam zaps a half million Martian rocks - 9/21/17
Bidding farewell to Cassini mission that explored Saturn - 9/14/17
Discovery of boron on Mars adds to evidence for habitability - 9/5/17
Rover findings indicate stratified lake on ancient Mars - 6/1/17
‘Halos’ discovered on Mars widen time frame for potential life - 5/30/17
Less radiation in inner Van Allen belt than previously believed - 3/20/17
First-ever GPS data release to boost space-weather science - 1/30/17
First detection of boron on the surface of Mars - 12/13/16
Rocket motor concept could boost CubeSat missions - 10/13/16
Mars rover’s laser can now target rocks all by itself - 7/21/16
ChemCam findings hint at oxygen-rich past on Mars - 6/27/16
Numerical simulations shed new light on early universe - 4/21/16
Space scientist tapped for French knighthood - 4/11/16
Study finds surprising variability in shape of Van Allen Belts - 2/23/16
Gravitational waves found, black-hole models led the way - 2/11/16
Machine learning helps discover the most luminous supernova in history - 1/14/16
New Mars rover findings revealed at American Geophysical Union conference - 12/17/15
Hunting for meteorites in Antarctica - 11/3/15
Los Alamos physicist wins 2016 Joseph F. Keithley Award for Advances in Measurement Science - 10/15/15
Curiosity Rover confirms existence of a large ancient lake on Mars - 10/8/15
Young, Jupiter-like planet discovered - 8/13/15
Beyond Pluto: The Search for the Edge of the Solar System focus of upcoming Frontiers in Science lectures - 7/30/15
Curiosity rover finds evidence of Mars’ primitive continental crust - 7/13/15
NASA agreements advance Mars exploration, Los Alamos Rover instrument a key component - 6/17/15
Mars Rover’s ChemCam Instrument gets sharper vision - 5/21/15
Uncovering the mysteries of cosmic explosions - 5/20/15
HAWC Observatory to study universe’s most energetic phenomena - 3/20/15
Unusual light in dark space revealed by Los Alamos, NASA - 11/7/14
Novel rocket design flight tested - 10/23/14
Los Alamos laser selected for 2020 Mars mission - 7/31/14
Planetary scientist to discuss Curiosity rover’s visit to Mars - 5/23/14
Neutron stars’ X-ray superbursts mystify, inspire Los Alamos scientists - 12/6/13
Martian laser surpasses 100,000 zaps - 12/5/13
Black hole birth captured by cosmic voyeurs - 11/21/13
A golden anniversary for space-based treaty verification - 10/22/13
Talk explores Laboratory's 50 years of space research - 10/3/13
Water for future Mars astronauts? - 9/26/13
New gamma-ray observatory begins operations at Sierra Negra volcano in the state of Puebla, Mexico - 8/21/13
Van Allen probes pinpoint driver of speeding electrons - 7/25/13
Los Alamos science sleuth on the trail of a martian mystery - 3/19/13
ChemCam data abundant at Planetary Conference - 3/15/13
Mysterious electron stash found hidden among Van Allen belts - 3/1/13
ChemCam follows the ‘Yellowknife Road’ to Martian wet area - 1/15/13
Researchers test novel power system for space travel - 11/26/12
Los Alamos provides HOPE for radiation belt storm probes - 8/30/12
ChemCam laser first analyses yield beautiful results - 8/23/12
ChemCam laser sets its sights on first martian target - 8/17/12
ChemCam sends digital ‘thumbs up’ - 8/8/12
Los Alamos laser instrument arrives on Red Planet’s surface - 8/6/12
Bradbury Science Museum gets martian fever - 7/31/12
Oxygen detected in atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Dione - 3/3/12
IBEX probe glimpses interstellar neighborhood - 1/31/12
Christmas burst reveals neutron star collision - 12/1/11
Solar wind samples give insight into birth of solar system - 6/23/11
Stellar science unveiled at space conference - 3/8/11
