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This laboratory opened in 1952 as a weapons-development branch of the University of California Radiation Laboratory (now Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), and was intended to serve as a complement (and informal competitor) to the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. In 1971 the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory was formally separated from Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory amid campus protests over the university's participation in military research. In 1981, the laboratory was renamed Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In 2005 the University of California turned over management of the laboratory to a consortium named Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
Laboratory Directors
- 1952–1958: Herbert York
- 1958–1960: Edward Teller
- 1960–1961: Harold Brown
- 1961–1965: John Foster
- 1965–1971: Michael May
- 1971–1988: Roger Batzel
- 1988–1994: John Nuckolls
- 1994–2002: Bruce Tarter
- 2002–2006: Michael Anastasio
- 2006–2011: George Miller
- 2011–present: Penrose "Parney" Albright
Staff
- 1951–present: Richard Post
- 1951–1974: Leader, Controlled Thermonuclear Resarch Group
- 1974–1987: Deputy Associate Director, Magnetic Fusion Energy Program
- 1987–present: Senior Scientist, Magnetic Fusion Energy Program
- 1952–1955: Bryce DeWitt, Senior Research Physicist
- 1952–1957: Michael May, Research Physicist
- 1952–1958: Herbert York, Director
- 1952–1960: Edward Teller
- 1952–1953: Consultant
- 1954–1958: Associate Director
- 1958–1960: Director
- 1952–1961: Harold Brown
- 1952–1953: Physicist
- 1953–1955: Group Leader
- 1955–1958: Division Leader
- 1958–1959: Associate Director
- 1959–1960: Deputy Director
- 1960–1961: Director
- 1952–1965: John Foster Jr.
- 1952–1958: Division Leader, Experimental Physics
- 1958–1961: Associate Director
- 1961–1965: Director
- 1953–2000: Roger Batzel
- 1953–1959: Assistant Division Leader, Chemistry Department
- 1959–1961: Head, Chemistry Department
- 1961–1966: Associate Director, Chemistry
- 1966–1968: Director, Chemistry and Space Reactors
- 1969–1971: Associate Director, Chemistry and Biomedical Research
- 1971–1988: Director
- 1989–2000: Director Emeritus
- 1955–1993: Berni Alder, Theoretical Physicist
- 1955–present: John Nuckolls
- 1955–1965: Staff Physicist
- 1965–1980: Associate Division Leader
- 1975–1983: Associate Leader, Laser Fusion Program
- 1983–1988: Associate Director, Physics
- 1988–1994: Director
- 1994–present: Associate Director at Large
- 1956–1967: Harold Furth, Physicist
- 1956–present: John D. Anderson
- 1956–1970: Physicist
- 1970–1973: Deputy Division Leader
- 1973–1976: Division Leader
- 1976–1978: Deputy Head
- 1978–1991: Assistant Director to Director, Physics
- 1991–present: Laboratory Associate
- 1960–1988: Michael May
- 1960–1961: Research Physicist
- 1962–1964: Associate Director
- 1965–1971: Director
- 1972–1988: Associate Director
- 1967–2002: C. Bruce Tarter
- 1967–1969: Physicist
- 1969–1973: Group Leader
- 1973–1978: Deputy Division Leader, Theoretical Physics
- 1978–1984: Division Leader, Theoretical Physics
- 1984–1988: Deputy Associate Director
- 1988–1994: Associate Director, Physics
- 1994–2002: Director
- 1969–1970: Christopher McKee, Physicist
- 1970–1973: John Holdren, Physicist, Theory Group, Magnetic Fusion Energy Division
- 1970–1979: John Browne, Staff Scientist
- 1972–2011: George Miller
- 1972–1980: Physicist
- 1980–1985: Leader, A-Division
- 1985–1989: Associate Director, Nuclear Design
- 1990–1996: Associate Director, Defense and Nuclear Technologies
- 1996–2000: Associate Director, National Security
- 2000–2005: Associate Director, National Ignition Facility
- 2005–2006: Associate Director at Large
- 2006–2011: Director
- 1972–present: John Lindl
- 1972–1978: Physicist, Inertial Confinement Fusion Program
- 1978–1981: Group Leader, Inertial Confinement Fusion Program
- 1981–1983: Associate Division Leader, Inertial Confinement Fusion Program
- 1983–1989: Associate Program Leader, Theory and Target Design, and Division Leader, Inertial Confinement Fusion Program
- 1989–1990: Deputy Program Leader and Division Leader, Inertial Confinement Fusion Program
- 1990–1994: Deputy Program Leader, Nova Laser Program, Inertial Confinement Fusion Program
- 1994–2005: Scientific Director, Inertial Confinement Fusion Program
- 2005–present: Chief Scientist, National Ignition Facility
- 1972–present: William Kruer
- 1972–1993: Group Leader, Laser Plasma Theory and Simulation
- 1993–present: Chief Scientist, Laser Plasma Physics
- 1975–1986: John Clauser, Research Physicist
- 1980–2006: Michael Anastasio
- 1980–2001: Staff Member and Manager
- 2001–2002: Deputy Director, Strategic Operations
- 2002–2006: Director
- 1981–1987: David Ceperley, Staff Scientist
- 1982–2004: Robert Laughlin, Research Physicist
- 1983–1990: David Edwards
- 1983–1986: Group Leader
- 1986–1990: Chief Scientist
- 1992–1992: Adam Riess, Research Associate
- 2004–2009: Cherry Murray, Deputy Director, Science and Technology
