A national laboratory funded by the US Department of Energy.
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SLAC staff is currently about 1,400, of whom 150 are Ph.D. physicists. At any given time, there are typically 300-400 physicists in the high-energy physics program and 600 scientists in the synchrotron radiation program. These researchers come from universities throughout the US and many other countries.
Last modified
22 December 1995
B. C. H. Quark