Full Text of HR1219 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to recognize the 70th anniversary of | 4 | | Argonne National Laboratory; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Argonne's beginnings can be traced to Enrico Fermi | 6 | | and the attempt to create the world's first self-sustaining | 7 | | nuclear reaction - the Manhattan Project; because the | 8 | | experiments were deemed too dangerous to conduct in a major | 9 | | city, the operations were moved to a spot in nearby Palos Hills | 10 | | and renamed "Argonne" after the surrounding forest; and | 11 | | WHEREAS, The laboratory was chartered as Argonne National | 12 | | Laboratory on July 1, 1946; at the request of the United States | 13 | | Atomic Energy Commission, it began developing nuclear reactors | 14 | | for the nation's peaceful nuclear energy program; in the late | 15 | | 1940s and early 1950s, the laboratory moved to a larger | 16 | | location in Lemont and established a remote location in Idaho, | 17 | | called "Argonne-West", to conduct further nuclear research; | 18 | | and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, Argonne's workforce consists of 3,298 employees, | 20 | | 1,623 scientists and engineers, 315 postdoctoral scholars, 457 | 21 | | graduate and undergraduate students, 248 joint faculty, and | 22 | | over 7,186 facility users; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Argonne is a multidisciplinary science and | 2 | | engineering research center, where "dream teams" of | 3 | | world-class researchers work alongside experts from industry, | 4 | | academia, and other government laboratories to address vital | 5 | | national challenges in clean energy, environment, technology, | 6 | | and national security; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Argonne leverages its Chicago-area location to | 8 | | lead discovery and to power innovation in a wide range of core | 9 | | scientific capabilities, from high-energy physics, and | 10 | | materials science to structural biology and advanced computer | 11 | | science; therefore, be it
| 12 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 13 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 14 | | recognize the 70th anniversary of Argonne National Laboratory | 15 | | and we wish it many more successful years; and be it further
| 16 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 17 | | presented to Argonne National Laboratory as an expression of | 18 | | our esteem and respect.
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