The Conference Center Pond, as it is now called, provides the Laboratory’s main campus with a scenic water feature. The pond’s beginning goes back to the summer of 1961, and its creation was essentially a practical matter.
ORNL researcher Frances Pleasonton was instrumental in some of the earliest explorations of the properties of the neutron.
The ORNL biochemist and civic leader proposed that President Eisenhower’s 1953 executive order to desegregate Army base schools include those under the Atomic Energy Commission, as well.