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3 unusual facts about Radiation Laboratory


American military technology during World War II

The MIT Radiation Laboratory was formed to develop radar and this led to gun-laying and aircraft radar and the LORAN navigation system.

Engineering, Science, and Management War Training

Much of it was in support of the Radiation Laboratory at MIT where microwave radar was being developed and the electronics firms in the northeast area.

Rad Lab

The wartime Radiation Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which aided in the development of radar


Castle Koon

The Koon shot of Operation Castle was a test of a University of California Radiation Laboratory designed thermonuclear device.


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Thomas Ebbesen

He then worked at the Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory before joining the NEC Fundamental Research Laboratories in Japan in 1988 where his research shifted first to novel carbon materials such as fullerenes (C60), graphene and carbon nanotubes.