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• See if you know the answers to these questions .
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• This man is
• a scientist solving an equation
• an Italian navigator
• director of the original "Argonne Laboratory"
• all of the above

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(d) All of the above . . .

• When invited to join the University of Chicago
  Metallurgical Laboratory project to pursue the
  world's first self-sustaining nuclear chain
  reaction, Enrico Fermi stepped to the blackboard
  and worked out, simply and directly, the equation
  from which could be calculated the critical size
  of a chain-reaction sphere.
• After the chain reaction was achieved, the team
  reported to the federal government in
  pre-arranged code, "The Italian navigator has
  landed in the New World."
• The Metallurgical Laboratory moved to a forested
  area southwest of Chicago and was named "Argonne
  Laboratory" Fermi was its first director.

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• These men are
• retrieving lunches from a large vending machine
• moving radioactive equipment
• conducting a robotics experiment

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(b) Moving radioactive materials

• These chemical engineers are moving
  pyroprocessing equipment remotely in Argonne's
  engineering-scale electrorefiner development
  glovebox.
• This facility is used to support advanced spent
  fuel pyrochemical process RD for the U.S.
  Department of Energys Advanced Fuel Cycle
  Initiative program.

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• A "pouch cell" is used to
• Provide a warm environment for orphaned kangaroos
  
• Test watch batteries
• Test batteries of unusual shape and size

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(c) Test batteries of unusual shape and size

• Pouch cells provide a convenient low-cost
  flexible packaging system for situations that
  require unusual shapes and sizes.
• Here, a chemistry co-op student loads a
  lithium-ion battery cell in a pouch into a test
  oven to evaluate its electrochemical performance
  for use in a power vest for soldiers.

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• This facility is used for
• Modeling and simulation
• Neutron scattering research
• Transmission electron microscopy

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(b) Neutron scattering research

• The Intense Pulsed Neutron Source (IPNS) at
  Argonne National Laboratory is a national
  facility for neutron scattering research. It is
  available to outside users through the submission
  of research proposals.

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• These people are engaged in
• Transportation mapping
• Reactor modeling
• Computational biology

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(c) Computational biology

• Computational biology (including bioinformatics,
  high-throughput genome analysis, and metabolic
  reconstruction) has emerged as a major discipline
  complementing experimentation.
• Here researchers view a biochemical map of
  metabolic pathways on the Active Mural (a large
  tiled display system).

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• What do these two things have in common?

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Beethoven

• Researchers at Argonne's Advanced Photon Source
  found massive amounts of lead in bone fragments
  belonging to 19th Century composer Ludwig von
  Beethoven, confirming the cause of his years of
  chronic debilitating illness.

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• This is
• a capacitor
• an inductor
• a medical device

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(c) A medical device

• This implantable device is designed to stimulate
  viable nerves and muscles to prevent muscles from
  deteriorating and to help restore nerve and
  muscle function to treat a wide variety of
  diseases, including chronic headaches, peripheral
  pain, angina, and epilepsy.
• It contains a rechargeable battery, battery
  management system, and microstimulator.
• Argonne scientists worked with industry and
  university partners to develop advanced battery
  chemistry to power the tiny battery.