History

A History of Firsts Drives Our Future

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1946

AUI is Chartered

  • to acquire, plan, construct and operate laboratories and other facilities that would unite the resources
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1950

Brookhaven National Laboratory Opens

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1956

DNA Imaging

  • Brookhaven researchers discover a new way to study DNA and produce a photographic image of DNA synthesis in plant roots
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1956

NRAO & GBO Are Developed

  • AUI begins managing the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and Green-bank Observatory for the National Science Foundation