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Cambridge, MA., U.S.A. 



FRANCIS BITTER NATIONAL MAGNET LABORATORY (NML) 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 



"Big Science" Descriptor : Materials science 



Description of Facility/Instrument : The National Magnet Laboratory pro- 

 vides high field facilities for experiments In solid state and low 

 temperature physics, atomic and molecular physics, chemistry, 

 materials research, magnet engineering, and materials research. 



Date of Construction : 1960 



Construction Cost ; 198A $$ : more than $50 million 



Present International Cooperation 



Nationality(s) of Ownership : U.S. 

 Nationality(s) of Operational Funding : U.S. 

 Nationality(s) of Management Staff ; U.S. 



Nationality (s) of Researchers : About 95 percent U.S.; 5 percent 

 foreign. 



Potential for Future International Cooperation : It is expected that in- 

 ternational cooperation will continue at this level. Several 

 foreign scientists spend their sabbatical years at NML. Users 

 from non-U. S. Institutions in 1983-84 were from Poland (1), Japan 

 (A), France (2), Switzerland (1), Brazil (2), and Finland (1)« 



