Fiscal Year 2024
- Budget: $1.2 billion
- Procurement: $487 million
Our Workforce
- 3,836 total employees
- 390 postdoctoral scholars
- 769 graduate and undergrad students
- 467 joint faculty
- 3,781 facility users
- 1,940 visiting scientists
Our Research
- 21 research divisions
- 6 national scientific user facilities
- Many centers, joint institutes, program offices
- Hundreds of research partners
Our STEM Outreach
- Connected with 6,273 elementary, middle, and high school students. Also reached another 21,000+ students and their family members through in-person outreach programs such as STEM fests.
Argonne Distinguished Fellows
- Argonne has honored 64 researchers as Argonne Distinguished Fellows, the laboratory’s highest scientific/engineering rank, since 2002.
Emeritus scientists and engineers
- The laboratory has also named 19 Emeritus scientists and engineers since 2006, recognizing their vital scientific achievements.
Argonne's Nobelists
Enrico Fermi, Argonne’s founding director, won the 1938 Nobel Prize in physics for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons.
Maria Goeppert Mayer shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in physics. While working at Argonne in 1948, she developed the “nuclear shell model” to explain how neutrons and protons within atomic nuclei are structured.
Alexei A. Abrikosov shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in physics for research on condensed-matter physics and superconductivity.