Battelle Institute
The Battelle Institute is a nonprofit American Institute for contract research . The institute serves scientific and technical research, especially in connection with patent law developments and commercial applications.
It was founded in 1929 from a foundation of industrialist Gordon Battelle in Columbus, Ohio , and also has research facilities in Aberdeen, Maryland , Richland, Washington, and Geneva . The institute in Frankfurt am Main ( Battelle Institute for Nuclear Physics ) was closed in the mid-1990s.
On October 19, 1956, a UNIVAC I , the first commercial computer manufactured in the USA , was officially put into operation in Germany by Carl Hammer , Director of the Battelle Institute in Frankfurt.
US National Laboratories
The Battelle Institute co-operates the US Department of Energy 's National Laboratories :
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (together with Stony Brook University )
- Idaho National Laboratory (Battelle Energy Alliance: Battelle, BWX Technologies , Washington Group International , Electric Power Research Institute and several universities)
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Lawrence Livermore National Security: Battelle, BWX Technologies, Washington Group International, University of California , Bechtel National, and Texas A&M Universities)
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (together with MRIGlobal )
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (together with the University of Tennessee )
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory