A Look Back

Women looking at computer code cards
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Programmable electronic computers gradually supplanted human computers over the course of the 1950s, but women found ways to remain in the new field of computing.
photo of IBM 704 computer at LLNL in 1956
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LLNL mathematician helps FORTRAN became the first computer language standard, opening the door to modern computing.
Rib cage attached to the soluble organ cavity mold and positioned inside the hollow torso silicone mold.
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Livermore researchers construct three realistic torso-only manikins to aid with radiation measurement.
Man stanading next to large scientific equipment
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The discovery of carbon-14 leads to accelerator mass spectrometry at Livermore.
Man sitting at typewriter on left, woman, seated, on right.
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Artificial intelligence research begins at Lawrence Livermore.
One man sitting in experimental automobile frame, another standing next to it
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In 1980, LLNL researchers worked on a powered roadway for electric vehicles that they hoped would change the face of the nation’s transportation system.
B&W photo of Richard Post sitting next to giant magnet
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Livermore began investigating controlled thermonuclear reactions and fusion early in its history
 A photo from 1970 showing Marvin Van Dilla working with flow cytometry.
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In 1963, a comprehensive, long-range program dealing with the sources and biological effects of human-made radiation was established by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Livermore.

W. Lawrence Gates, the chief scientist and first leader of LLNL’s PCMDI.
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The end of World War II heralded an era of population growth throughout the nation and especially in the State of California, where many returning soldiers and their families settled.

From left: George Russell, Harold Brown and Edward Teller.
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In the summer of 1956, a U.S. Navy-sponsored study (Project Nobska) on anti-submarine warfare was held at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.