United States Naval Research Laboratory
Coordinates: 38 ° 49 '26 " N , 77 ° 1' 21" W.
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United States Naval Research Laboratory |
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| State level | Bund ( United States Navy ) |
| position | Military research facility ( defense research ) |
| Supervisory authority | Office of Naval Research |
| founding | July 2, 1923 |
| Headquarters | Washington, DC |
| Authority management | Commanding Officer Captain Paul Courtney Stewart |
| Servants | over 2500 |
| Web presence | www.nrl.navy.mil |
The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is the joint research laboratory for the United States Navy and for the United States Marine Corps . It operates a broad program of scientific research and development. The NRL has existed since 1923 and was founded on a suggestion by Thomas Alva Edison as a department under the Office of Naval Research ( The Government should maintain a great research laboratory. ... In this could be developed ... all the technique of military and naval progression without any vast expense. ).
The achievements of the NRL cover a wide area. It goes from the development of X-rays with gamma rays to the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment (LASCO) and the Dragon Eye (an aircraft sensor system ). The laboratory planned a nuclear submarine in 1939 and developed an above-horizontal radar system in the late 1950s. Recently the details of Grab I, one of the first reconnaissance satellites, were also released.
Two employees of the NRL, Herbert A. Hauptman and Jerome Karle , were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985 for their work in molecular structure analysis .
Many of the laboratory's projects become public applications after a while, without any notice of their origin. One example is the so-called onion routing .
Some of the current areas of work include plasma physics, materials science, and electronic warfare .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ www.nrl.navy.mil History (Engl.). Accessed June 5, 2010.
- ↑ www.nrl.navy.mil Commanding Officer (Engl.). Accessed June 6, 2010.
- ↑ www.nrl.navy.mil About NRL (Engl.). Accessed July 17, 2010.
- ↑ Big Laboratory for Navy Planned (PDF) NY Times. October 8, 1915. Retrieved July 5, 2008.