Los Alamos National Laboratory: Difference between revisions

LANL is northern New Mexico's largest institution and the largest employer with approximately 8,762 direct employees, 277 guard force, 505 contractors, 1,613 students, 1,143 unionized craft workers, and 452 post-doctoral researchers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lanl.gov/about/facts-figures/index.php|title=Facts, Figures |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101212033847/http://www.lanl.gov/organization/ |archive-date=December 12, 2010 }}</ref> Additionally, there are roughly 120 DOE employees stationed at the laboratory to provide federal oversight of LANL's work and operations. Approximately one-third of the laboratory's technical staff members are [[physicist]]s, one-quarter are [[engineer]]s, one-sixth are [[chemist]]s and [[materials science|materials scientists]], and the remainder work in [[mathematics]] and [[scientific computing|computational science]], [[biology]], [[geoscience]], and other disciplines. Professional scientists and students also come to Los Alamos as visitors to participate in scientific projects. The staff collaborates with universities and industry in both basic and applied research to develop resources for the future. The annual budget is approximately [[United States dollar|US$]]2.2 billion.