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The 'United States Naval Research Laboratory' (NRL) is the corporate research laboratory for the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps and conducts a broad program of scientific research and advanced development. NRL has existed since 1923, when it opened under the Office of Naval Research at the instigation of Thomas Edison.
"The Government should maintain a great research laboratory.... In this could be developed...all the technique of military and naval progression without any vast expense."
NRL's accomplishments range from the development of gamma-ray radiography and radar to the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment (LASCO) and Dragon Eye, a robotic airborne sensor system. The laboratory first proposed a nuclear submarine in 1939, and developed over-the-horizon radar in the late 1950s. The details of Grab I, deployed by NRL as the nation's first intelligence satellite, were recently declassified. The laboratory is responsible for the identification, friend or foe (IFF) system. In 1985, two scientists at the laboratory, Herbert A. Hauptman and Jerome Karle, won the Nobel Prize for work in molecular structure analysis. The projects developed by the laboratory often become mainstream applications without public awareness of the developer; an example in computer science is onion routing. The Timation system, developed at NRL, provided the basis for the Global Positioning System [1].
A few of the laboratory's many current specialties include plasma physics, space physics, materials science, and tactical electronic warfare.
★ History of radar
★ Nike laser
★ Interactive Scenario Builder
★ NRLMSISE-00
★ SIMDIS
★ Clementine_spacecraft
★ U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
★ ''Pushing the Horizon: 75 years of High Stakes Science and Technology at the Naval Research Laboratory'' (PDF)
Bust of Thomas Edison at the front gate of the Naval Research Laboratory.
The 'United States Naval Research Laboratory' (NRL) is the corporate research laboratory for the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps and conducts a broad program of scientific research and advanced development. NRL has existed since 1923, when it opened under the Office of Naval Research at the instigation of Thomas Edison.
"The Government should maintain a great research laboratory.... In this could be developed...all the technique of military and naval progression without any vast expense."
Naval Research Laboratory complex on the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.
NRL's accomplishments range from the development of gamma-ray radiography and radar to the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment (LASCO) and Dragon Eye, a robotic airborne sensor system. The laboratory first proposed a nuclear submarine in 1939, and developed over-the-horizon radar in the late 1950s. The details of Grab I, deployed by NRL as the nation's first intelligence satellite, were recently declassified. The laboratory is responsible for the identification, friend or foe (IFF) system. In 1985, two scientists at the laboratory, Herbert A. Hauptman and Jerome Karle, won the Nobel Prize for work in molecular structure analysis. The projects developed by the laboratory often become mainstream applications without public awareness of the developer; an example in computer science is onion routing. The Timation system, developed at NRL, provided the basis for the Global Positioning System [1].
A few of the laboratory's many current specialties include plasma physics, space physics, materials science, and tactical electronic warfare.
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See also
★ History of radar
★ Nike laser
★ Interactive Scenario Builder
★ NRLMSISE-00
★ SIMDIS
★ Clementine_spacecraft
External links
★ U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
★ ''Pushing the Horizon: 75 years of High Stakes Science and Technology at the Naval Research Laboratory'' (PDF)
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