Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) at the Chilton/Harwell Science Campus is a UK scientific research laboratory near Didcot in Oxfordshire.

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Chilton/Harwell Science Campus - Didcot - Oxfordshire

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RAL is run by the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC). It is named after the physicists Ernest Rutherford and Edward Appleton.

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Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils - Ernest Rutherford - Edward Appleton

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The Rutherford High Energy Laboratory was set up on the former RAF Harwell airfield between Chilton and Harwell in 1957, and merged with the Atlas and Appleton Laboratories in 1975 and 1979, respectively, to form the current laboratory. The CCLRC was set up to run RAL as well as Daresbury Laboratory in 1996.

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RAF Harwell - Chilton - Harwell - 1957 - 1975 - 1979 - Daresbury Laboratory - 1996

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RAL hosts ISIS, the brightest spallation neutron source in the world, which provides research capabilities for around 1600 scientists from a range of disciplines, and has been operating since 1985.

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Spallation neutron source - 1985

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RAL was controversially chosen as the site for the synchrotron light source Diamond, which is due to open officially in January 2007.

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Synchrotron light - Diamond - 2007

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RAL also hosts a number of other resources and services in atmospheric sciences, space science, spectroscopy, laser sources and renewable energy research.

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Atmospheric science - Space science - Spectroscopy - Laser - Renewable energy

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