Argonne report

On the field trip we took on Wednesday I was amazed at the information I learned. When I say it was amazing, that means it’s crazy to realize how advance the world is and how many people work to create a more sustainable world in our own backyard. When we first arrived we learned about the history of Argonne and how it came to be. It was pretty cool to learn about it because I myself am majoring in history so it was cool to see the mission and values Argonne was built on. This made me very interested in Argonne because we started off with a history lesson and it made me want to learn more. Next we went on to the APS building also known as Advance Photon Source. Here we learned about electrons and the advanced x-ray machine. Then we moved on to the auto section where the researchers were working on making better cars for the planet so humans don’t have to be dependent on fuel. Overall, this trip was a good learning experience that I would probably never have gotten if I didn’t take this class for school.
So where do I start first; with the history of Argonne of course. It all started with World War II when the United States went to war with Germany. The government wanted to start making atomic bombs so they started it at the University of Chicago It was called the Manhattan Project. It was led by scientist Robert Oppenheimer. After they started taking the rods out of the reactor they moved it out of Chicago to under the Stagg football field then later the government bought property in Lemont and placed the lab there which is now known as Argonne National Lab. It currently has six major scientific fields that do research. It has Advanced Photon Source, Computing, Tandem Linac Accelerator System, Nanoscale Materials, Electron Microscopy Center, Transportation Research, and Analysis Computing Center. These fields are advancing science and technology, and the world we live in.
In the APS, Advance Photon Source, at Argonne is a breakthrough in science targeting a