Radiation Laboratory

The Radiation Laboratory or often RadLab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology was in operation from October 1940 until December 31, 1945. The Radiation Laboratory was one division of the National Defense Research Committee, a commission established by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt under the leadership of MIT President Karl T. Compton and Dean of Engineering Vannevar Bush. Lee A. DuBridge was appointed director of the laboratory, later succeded by A.J. Allen. (Other Radiation Laboratories were established by the NDRC at Harvard University, at Columbia University under I.I. Rabi, and at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.)

References

• MIT Archives' Celebrating the History of Building 20
• The Radiation Laboratory, a history