6-524: Daresbury Laboratory is a scientific research laboratory based at Sci-Tech Daresbury campus near Daresbury in Halton , Cheshire , England. The laboratory began operations in 1962 and was officially opened on 16 June 1967 as the Daresbury Nuclear Physics Laboratory ( DNPL ) by the then Prime Minister of United Kingdom, Harold Wilson . It was the second national laboratory established by
12-702: Is an international centre for Accelerator Science and Technology (AST) in the UK. It was proposed in September 2003 and officially opened in September 2006. It is a joint venture of Lancaster University , the University of Liverpool , the University of Manchester , the Science and Technology Facilities Council , and the Northwest Regional Development Agency . The Institute is located in a purpose-built building on
18-605: The Daresbury Laboratory later forming a joint venture and adding the Cockcroft Institute , Innovation Centre, Vanguard House , Hartree Centre , Techspace One, Techspace Two, Violet, Campus Technology Hub and ITAC. Nearly 2,000 people work on the campus for over 150 high tech companies. The science park was formerly known as Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus . In 2012 it was given enterprise zone status and renamed Sci-Tech Daresbury . The Cockcroft Institute
24-910: The British National Institute for Research in Nuclear Science, following the Rutherford High Energy Laboratory (now Rutherford Appleton Laboratory ). It is operated by the Science and Technology Facilities Council , part of UK Research and Innovation . As of 2018, it employs around 300 staff, with Paul Vernon appointed as director in November 2020, taking over from Professor Susan Smith who had been director from 2012. Daresbury Laboratory carries out research in fields such as accelerator science, bio-medicine, physics, chemistry, materials, engineering and computational science. Its facilities are used by scientists and engineers, from both
30-560: The Daresbury campus, and in centres in each of the participating universities. The Hartree Centre is a high performance computing , data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) research facility focused on industry-led challenges. It was formed in 2012 at Daresbury Laboratory on the Sci-Tech Daresbury science and innovation campus in Cheshire , UK. The Hartree Centre is part of
36-541: The university research community and industrial research base. The laboratory is based at Sci-Tech Daresbury . In 2009 the laboratory was awarded the title of the "Most Outstanding Science Park" at the UK Science Parks Association . Sci-Tech Daresbury Sci-Tech Daresbury , also known as Sci-Tech Daresbury Enterprise Zone , is a science and innovation campus near the village of Daresbury in Halton , Cheshire , England . The site began life as
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