"With my parents having strong math and physics backgrounds, I saw science as a natural career option."

"I have always found it fascinating that even quite complex natural phenomena lend themselves to mathematical models."

"I love that science is an unfinished story; there are so many unanswered questions that must be addressed for a better understanding of the natural environment."

ORNL is building on a long legacy of leadership in fusion energy.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory today is an open science laboratory that attracts thousands of scientists and engineers from around the globe each year. It began in the World War II Manhattan Project, which developed the first atomic bombs. In summer 1939, tensions were rising among European powers...

In the early 1970s, scientists at laboratories worldwide raced to unravel the mystery of how billions of miles of DNA are packaged inside the cells of the human body. ORNL’s Don and Ada Olins were the first to discover the critical structure—the nucleosome—that winds DNA around proteins like thre...

Jeremy Busby didn’t always understand the power of technology transfer, where fundamental discoveries are nurtured to succeed in the marketplace.

Busby, who directs ORNL’s Materials Science and Technology Division, is older and wiser now, and he's seen the process work.

Busby leads one of ORNL...