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this week on press:here. good evening, i m scott mcgrew. every laboratory in the world, i am sure, has the periodic table of elements hanging on the wall. they certainly do at lawrence berkeley national laboratories. in fact, if you look very closely at that table, you ll find elements like berklium, californiaium and nobelium. scientists at lawrence berkeley lab have discovered more than a dozen elements, including plutonium. 11 of those scientists have won the nobel prize. from just one building on the university of california campus at berkeley called the radiation laboratory, or rad lab, the laboratory has expanded to a staff of more than 4,000. many of the things you know, you know from their research, from the comet that destroyed the dinosaurs to good and bad cholesterol to the mysterious existence of dark energy that makes up most of our universe. all of those ideas started at lawrence berkeley. paul alivisatos is the director of lawrence berkeley national laborat