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  Fall 1998 Bates Alumni Magazine: A River Czar Arrives
Lawrance enlisted some of his students to help him on the river.
Lawrance, who died in 1987 at age 93, debunked the reports of paint peeling off walls as exaggerations.
In ending the Lawrance era, the court found that in the days of growing environmental consciousness, the river master position duplicated the efforts of other agencies, public and private.
abacus.bates.edu /pubs/mag/98-Fall/lawrance.html   (655 words)

  
  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a United States Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory, managed and operated by the University of California, in Livermore, California.
In 1951, Teller formally appealed to the Atomic Energy Commission for the creation of the laboratory, and in September 1952 the lab was formally founded as the Livermore branch of the University of California Radiation Laboratory (Lawrence's lab in Berkeley).
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a partner in the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) located in Walnut Creek, California.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lawrence_Livermore_National_Laboratory   (1937 words)

  
 Groton, MA Vital Records [Marriages)
William, of Wilton [N.H., and Mrs., int.] Betty Lawrance, Dec. 17, 1799*.
Jonathan, of Danvers, and Phebe Lawrance, Sept. 30, 1756.
Azubah, and Jonathan Lawrance jr., Oct. 19, 1802*.
www.rays-place.com /town/ma/groton/gro-mar-a.htm   (3838 words)

  
 Living Here   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Livermore, California was established in 1869 by William Mendenhall who laid the town next to the railroad.
Livermore was the largest and fastest growing city in the region for many years.
The Livermore Heritage Guild in Carnegie Park at 3rd and K Streets has an excellent exhibit of Livermore history as well as many publications.
www.ci.livermore.ca.us /history.html   (358 words)

  
 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 50th Anniversary Celebration
For your inspired contributions to the nation and the University as co-founder and second director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the University of California is proud to bestow upon you the Presidential Medal.
For your thoughtful leadership as the third director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and for your outstanding contributions to science and education, the University of California is proud to bestow upon you the Presidential Medal.
For your leadership and vision as the fourth director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and for your superb contributions to science and technology, the University of California is proud to bestow upon you the Presidential Medal.
www.ucop.edu /pres/comments/llnl50an.htm   (945 words)

  
 Lawrence Livermore Labs- National Ignition Facility
The $1.2 billion laser facility is under construction at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a premier applied-science national security laboratory operated by the University of California under contract with the Department of Energy.
One of its primary missions is to ensure that the nation's nuclear weapons remain safe, secure, and reliable and to prevent the spread and use of nuclear weapons worldwide.
www.corba.org /industries/aerodef/nig.html   (628 words)

  
 - Department of Energy - Lawrence Livermore Labs - : FUJITSU
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a U.S. Department of Energy(DOE) national laboratory operated by the University of California.
Lawrence Livermore's mission is to apply science and technology in the national interest, with a focus on global security, global ecology, and bioscience.
Lawrence Livermore opted to expand the system by purchasing 17 Fujitsu fi-4750C scanners, distributing them in various locations throughout the campus facility to make scanning more convenient for its users.
www.fujitsu.com /global/casestudies/IMAGE_case2.html   (611 words)

  
 ATSDR - Health Consultation - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S. DOE), Livermore, Alameda County, California
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) was established in 1952 for the principal purpose of conducting nuclear weapons research and development.
Currently, HTO vapor on the Livermore site is monitored with an array of 11 continuously operating silica-gel samplers with an additional six samplers in the Livermore Valley.
Monitoring of all media in recent years indicates that the levels of tritium (measured as HTO) in other effluents and vegetation in the environment are generally decreasing with time as shown by the 1999 Annual Report (see Figures 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5).
www.atsdr.cdc.gov /HAC/pha/livermore2/liv_p3.html   (4354 words)

  
 Lawrence Livermore Contributes To Mercury Messenger Mission   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A team of scientists and engineers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in collaboration with UC Berkeley's Space Science Laboratory and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, have designed and built a high resolution gamma-ray detector that will enable NASA's Mercury Messenger to measure the elemental composition of the planet's crust.
Livermore's role was critical in ensuring that the spacecraft's gamma-ray spectrometer could withstand the heat of the galaxy's closest planet to the sun.
Livermore's Norm Madden and Monika Witte led a team that built a rugged, encapsulated germanium gamma-ray detector and mated it with a miniature cryocooler.
www.spacedaily.com /news/mercury-04e.html   (784 words)

  
 ScienceDaily: World's Largest Fast-Growth Crystal Grown At Lawrence Livermore Lab
Founded in 1952, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a national security laboratory, with a mission to ensure national security and apply science and technology to the important issues of our time.
Livermore Scientists Shape Crystals With Biomolecules (November 19, 2004) -- Using biominerals as an inspiration, Livermore physicist Jim De Yoreo and his LLNL research team have determined a key factor in how to manipulate the shapes of...
Livermore Scientists Unveil Melting Point Of Iron In Earth's Core (January 22, 2004) -- Two scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have discovered that iron in Earth-core conditions melts at a pressure of 225 GPa (or 32 million pounds per square inch) or about 5,100...
www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2000/02/000214074907.htm   (1794 words)

  
 CMS—Protein-Folding Kinetics   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Our work focuses on understanding the structure of proteins, which is one of the most interesting, complex, and interdisciplinary areas in modern bioscience.
This research coincides with Livermore’s long-range planning in the area of biological, chemical, and materials science with potential applications in disease detection and mitigation.
Livermore and NIH Scientists Create Technique to Examine Behavior of Proteins at Single Molecule Level
www-cms.llnl.gov /s-t/protein_folding_ar.html   (798 words)

  
 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore Lab’s Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement reveals plans for diagnostic experiments to prepare the Nevada Test Site for a return to nuclear testing as soon as Congress gives the green light.
Livermore Laboratory is where the neo-conservative ideology of “full spectrum dominance” through conventional and nuclear war fighting becomes a reality in the form of modernized nuclear weapons designs.
We must demand that Livermore and other nuclear weapons sites be converted into centers of peaceful civilian research on pressing issues such as sustainable energy, the international health crisis, and global climate change.
zmagsite.zmag.org /Oct2005/wright1005.html   (1698 words)

  
 ScienceDaily: Livermore Researchers Find New Source Of Coherent Light
The right panel shows the generated radiation as a function of location within the shocked crystal indicating the 22 THz coherent signal is generated at the shock front (between the white dotted lines).
But a group of researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found a new source of coherent optical radiation that is distinct from lasers and free-electron lasers.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is managed by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration.
www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2006/01/060114232738.htm   (1900 words)

  
 Document Archives
Livermore's local and regional economy is strong and diverse.
Livermore's land use plan to delineate permanent urban limit lines on both its southern and northern boundaries is progressing.
The College District and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have formed a number of training and education partnerships, including: an apprenticeship program in conjunction with the National Tooling and Machinery Association; a new laser-tech program; and future Bachelor of Science Program at the UC Davis satellite facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
www.ci.livermore.ca.us /mayor.html   (459 words)

  
 ContraCostaTimes.com | 10/18/2006 | Lawrence Livermore Lab scores 'Oscars of Invention'   (Site not responding. Last check: )
LIVERMORE - Lawrence Livermore Laboratory scooped up more RandD 100 awards this year for new technologies with commercial potential, including a pocket-sized explosives detector and a city-scale motion detector, bringing the lab's total to 113 awards since 1978.
Livermore tied its record of seven awards this year, a feat it also accomplished in 1987, 1988, 1997 and 1998.
Three of the Livermore lab's award-winning projects could potentially help with homeland security including a pocket-sized explosives detector.
www.contracostatimes.com /mld/cctimes/15791554.htm   (535 words)

  
 CMS—Carbon Conversion Fuel Cell   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Helping to make the prospects brighter is a team of Lawrence Livermore scientists working to develop a method for producing electricity that is safe, relatively simple, remarkably efficient, and kind to the environment.
The breakthrough Lawrence Livermore method, the result of a two-year study funded by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program, pushes the efficiency of using fossil fuels for generating electricity far closer to theoretical limits than ever before.
The Lawrence Livermore approach circumvents the historic barriers to a coal fuel cell by using extremely fine, virtually ash-free, “turbostratic” carbon particles that contain small amounts of ash and have a high degree of structural disorder on the nanometer scale.
www-cms.llnl.gov /s-t/carbon_con.html   (4013 words)

  
 UC Davis, Lawrence Livermore researchers
Details of the innovative test -- which uses micro doses of carbon-14-labeled vitamin B12 produced by a modified strain of Salmonella bacteria and a $2 million accelerator mass spectrometer to measure vitamin levels -- will be published online in the April issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0601251103).
The blood samples were then analyzed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory using an accelerator mass spectrometer, a sophisticated instrument that counts single atoms of 14C.
The research is an example of the kinds of scientific discoveries that are possible when leading clinicians and basic scientists with diverse expertise collaborate to find innovative solutions to important clinical problems.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-04/uocd-udl040306.php   (1395 words)

  
 Weapons Inspectors Denied Access Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Livermore nuclear weapons lab is a US facility involved in the design and development of weapons of mass destruction.
The continued development of nuclear weapons at Livermore Lab puts the U.S. in material breech of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which became Law in 1970.
After delivering the letter, the crowd singing “We shall overcome”, pledged to continue returning to Lawrence Livermore National Lab, until teams of international and civilian weapons inspectors are admitted.
sf.indymedia.org /news/2002/11/1543129.php   (686 words)

  
 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Site 300 - United States Nuclear Forces
Site 300 of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is located in northern California, approximately 15 miles southeast of the Laboratory's Main Site and 10 miles southwest of the City of Tracy.
Many years ago, LLNL and LBL were known as the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, after the founder Ernest O. Lawrence (Nobel prize winner and inventor of the cyclotron).
The newly refurbished bunker became a fully modernized hydrodynamic test facility to gather data crucial for assessing the operation of a nuclear weapon’s primary stage (a pit).
www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/facility/livermore_300.htm   (1388 words)

  
 LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORIES NEWS
Detective Charlie Garrison, Livermore, referring to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employees, whom the police charge are stonewalling the investigation into the death of Lee Scott Hall.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is cooperating fully with all law enforcement agencies involved in the issue.
In June 1999, Richardson came to Livermore for a gala celebration of the progress of the super laser, and was told the project was within budget and on time.
www.newsmakingnews.com /lab2,18,00Hallbackground.htm   (1280 words)

  
 SunJournal.com - Androscoggin - get a whiff of this
Back in June 1943, Bates College professor Walter Lawrance headed out to the banks of the Androscoggin River, to eight different spots, and took a whiff.
By the summer of 1958, according to Lawrance’s nose, the river’s smell hit zero on his scale and stayed there.
A 1-mile stretch around Livermore Falls that had also failed to meet standards recently got a tentative nod: Judging by certain bugs and fish, it appears to be up to par.
www.sunjournal.com /index.php?storyid=176869   (1080 words)

  
 Groton, MA Vital Records [Marriages)
Sibble, and Benjamin Lawrance of Pepperell, Nov. 21, 1769.
Lunenburg, dau Aaron and Mary, and [Rev. int.] Leonard J. Livermore, unm., a.
Alpheus jr., and Susanna Livermore, Nov. 7, 1820*.
www.rays-place.com /town/ma/groton/gro-mar-p.htm   (3540 words)

  
 Sandra Lee Turk Ancestors - htmg15 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Henry married Susan Lawrance on 14 Jun 1568 in, Essex,, England.
Susan Lawrance was born about 1551 in, Essex,, England.
Peter Livermore was born about 1570 in Little Thurloe, Suffolk,, England.
www.empirenet.com /~lsforeman/sandycharts/htmg15.htm   (432 words)

  
 ATSDR - Health Consultation - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S. DOE), Livermore, Alameda County, California
As part of this public health assessment process, ATSDR directly queries area residents and community groups to determine if they have any specific health concerns that may be related to the hazardous waste site.
During the health assessment at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), community members expressed specific concerns related to the environmental monitoring and dose evaluation of tritium.
Their concerns are that existing tritium monitoring procedures are primarily for tritium in the form of water (HTO) and do not measure the tritium in an organic form (i.e., as organically-bound tritium or OBT) that may be present in the environment and in foods.
www.atsdr.cdc.gov /HAC/PHA/livermore2/liv_p1.html   (7239 words)

  
 Court Ruling Could Delay Lawrence Livermore Biodefense Lab - News   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Acting in a case brought by neighbors of the Livermore facility, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the Energy Department conducted an inadequate assessment of the lab's environmental impact because the agency did not adequately examine the repercussions of a terrorist attack.
The new biodefense lab was initially set to open in August at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, but lawsuits have so far held up the project.
Executive Director Marylia Kelley, who lives across the street from the lab about 50 miles east of San Francisco, said she was concerned the facility might still open without sufficient consideration of its risks.
www.foxreno.com /news/10090838/detail.html   (446 words)

  
 Tri-Valley CAREs - Aug. 6, 2005 rally in Livermore
Currently Livermore Lab scientists are developing new and modified nuclear weapons, spurring the U.S. to spend billions of dollars upgrading the U.S. arsenal.
The Dept. of Energy describes the 50-mile radius surrounding Livermore Lab as the affected population.
SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS: The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, managed by the University of California (UC) is one of the two principal U.S. nuclear weapons design laboratories and as such, is one of the highest security facilities in the country.
www.trivalleycares.org /aug6-2005.asp   (1239 words)

  
 Green Day biografie, lyrics, ringtones en meer ! -- Green-day.jouwpagina.nl
Wright groeide op in Willits (Californië) met zijn vader en twee bloedverwanten.
Zijn vader heeft in die buurt veel huizen gebouwd, onder andere dat van Lawrance Livermore, de naaste buur en oprichter van Lookout!
Toen Wright 12 jaar was kwam hij bij Livermore's band, The Lookouts.
green-day.jouwpagina.nl   (272 words)

  
 Physics Today December 2001
A leader in the development of high-power gas and solid-state laser systems for almost three decades, Howard was internationally renowned for his contributions.
Howard was deeply involved in his Livermore, California, community both as a soccer coach for many years and as a long-time member of the Livermore Valley Tennis Club.
He will be sorely missed by his surviving family, his staff at LLNL, and his numerous colleagues in the international community who were the beneficiaries of his scientific acumen and warm personality.
www.physicstoday.org /pt/vol-54/iss-12/p76.html   (656 words)

  
 Lawrence Fellowship
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has established the Lawrence Fellowship, a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship program.
The purpose of the fellowship is to pursue cutting-edge science and stimulate cross-fertilization of ideas.
The expectations are that the fellows will publish their research results in refereed journals, give seminars at LLNL, answer invitations to give scientific talks, and attend major conferences.
universitygateway.llnl.gov /postdoc/lawrence   (197 words)

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