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TRIUMF
49°14′52″N 123°13′50″W / 49.247792°N 123.230596°W
TRIUMF is Canada's national particle accelerator centre. It is considered Canada's premier physics laboratory, and consistently regarded as one of the world's leading subatomic physics research centres. Owned and operated by a consortium of universities, it is on the south campus of one of its founding members, the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It houses the world's largest normal conducting cyclotron, a source of 520 MeV protons, which was named an IEEE Milestone in 2010. Its accelerator-focused activities involve particle physics, nuclear physics, nuclear medicine, materials science, and detector and accelerator development.
Over 500 scientists, engineers, technicians, tradespeople, administrative staff, postdoctoral fellows, and students work at the site. It attracts over 1000 national and international researchers every year, and has generated over $1 billion in economic activity over the last decade.
To develop TRIUMF's research priorities, physicists based at the facility and the university follow the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council's (NSERC) long-range plan for subatomic physics. TRIUMF also has over 50 international agreements for collaborative research.
Asteroid 14959 TRIUMF is named in honour of the laboratory.
TRIUMF was founded in 1968 by Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Victoria to meet research needs that no single university could provide. The name TRIUMF was originally an acronym based on TRI University Meson Facility, but no longer reflects its current state as a consortium of 21 member universities across Canada.
Since its inception as a local university facility, it has evolved into a national laboratory while maintaining strong ties to Canadian universities' research programs. Its related fields of study have expanded from nuclear physics to include particle physics, molecular and materials science, nuclear medicine, and accelerator research and development.
TRIUMF's 520 MeV cyclotron was officially commissioned on February 9, 1976 by Pierre Trudeau, the 15th Prime Minister of Canada, who said, "I don't really know what a cyclotron is, but I am certainly very happy Canada has one."
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TRIUMF
49°14′52″N 123°13′50″W / 49.247792°N 123.230596°W
TRIUMF is Canada's national particle accelerator centre. It is considered Canada's premier physics laboratory, and consistently regarded as one of the world's leading subatomic physics research centres. Owned and operated by a consortium of universities, it is on the south campus of one of its founding members, the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It houses the world's largest normal conducting cyclotron, a source of 520 MeV protons, which was named an IEEE Milestone in 2010. Its accelerator-focused activities involve particle physics, nuclear physics, nuclear medicine, materials science, and detector and accelerator development.
Over 500 scientists, engineers, technicians, tradespeople, administrative staff, postdoctoral fellows, and students work at the site. It attracts over 1000 national and international researchers every year, and has generated over $1 billion in economic activity over the last decade.
To develop TRIUMF's research priorities, physicists based at the facility and the university follow the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council's (NSERC) long-range plan for subatomic physics. TRIUMF also has over 50 international agreements for collaborative research.
Asteroid 14959 TRIUMF is named in honour of the laboratory.
TRIUMF was founded in 1968 by Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Victoria to meet research needs that no single university could provide. The name TRIUMF was originally an acronym based on TRI University Meson Facility, but no longer reflects its current state as a consortium of 21 member universities across Canada.
Since its inception as a local university facility, it has evolved into a national laboratory while maintaining strong ties to Canadian universities' research programs. Its related fields of study have expanded from nuclear physics to include particle physics, molecular and materials science, nuclear medicine, and accelerator research and development.
TRIUMF's 520 MeV cyclotron was officially commissioned on February 9, 1976 by Pierre Trudeau, the 15th Prime Minister of Canada, who said, "I don't really know what a cyclotron is, but I am certainly very happy Canada has one."