History
A History of Firsts Drives Our Future
1946
AUI is Chartered
- to acquire, plan, construct and operate laboratories and other facilities that would unite the resources
1950
Brookhaven National Laboratory Opens
1956
DNA Imaging
- Brookhaven researchers discover a new way to study DNA and produce a photographic image of DNA synthesis in plant roots
1956
NRAO & GBO Are Developed
- AUI begins managing the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and Green-bank Observatory for the National Science Foundation