private nonprofit charitable trust industry business services founded columbus ohio 1929 headquarters columbus ohio key people jeffrey wadsworth president and ceo products technical & scientific research services revenue 6.2 billion usd 1 number of employees 22 000 website see tfm www.battelle.org headquarters in columbus battelle memorial institute is a private nonprofit applied science and technology development company headquartered in columbus ohio . battelle is a charitable trust organized as a nonprofit corporation under the laws of the state of ohio and is exempt from taxation under section 501 c 3 of the internal revenue code because it is organized for charitable scientific and education purposes . the institute opened in 1929 but traces its origins to the 1923 will of ohio industrialist gordon battelle which provided for its creation . originally focusing on contract research and development work in the areas of metals and material science battelle is now an international science and technology enterprise that explores emerging areas of science develops and commercializes technology and manages laboratories for customers . contents 1 business 2 national project management 3 technological and medical advances 4 battelle center for science and technology policy osu glenn 5 see also 6 references 7 external links business edit battelle serves the following consumer & industrial agribusiness battelle manufacturing battelle verity battelle village critical infrastructure consumer products cyber innovations industrial products & services economic analysis & tech strategies energy & environment agribusiness alternative energy demilitarization environmental services oil & gas utilities health & analytics data analytics healthcare improvement medical readiness & response public health improvement & response laboratory management battelle manages the following brookhaven national laboratory idaho national laboratory lawrence livermore national laboratory national biodefense analysis and countermeasures center national renewable energy laboratory in partnership with mriglobal as part of the alliance for sustainable energy llc 2 oak ridge national laboratory and pacific northwest national laboratory national security applied genomics applied technology battelle manufacturing cbrne defense critical infrastructure cyber innovations data analytics demilitarization life sciences research maritime technologies medical readiness & response tactical systems pharmaceutical & medical devices life sciences research manufacturing & design medical devices stem education battelleed battelle arts grant stem learning networks in addition to its columbus ohio headquarters battelle has offices in aberdeen maryland west jefferson ohio dublin ohio sequim washington arlington virginia duxbury massachusetts charlottesville virginia houston texas anchorage alaska and egg harbor township new jersey . 3 national project management edit in addition to operating its own research facilities as of 2013 battelle manages or co manages on behalf of the united states department of energy the following national laboratories brookhaven national laboratory through brookhaven science associates llc a collaboration between battelle and stony brook university idaho national laboratory through the battelle energy alliance a collaboration between battelle bwx technologies inc. washington group international electric power research institute and an alliance of universities lawrence livermore national laboratory through lawrence livermore national security llc a collaboration between battelle bwx technologies inc. washington group international the university of california bechtel national and the texas a & m university system national renewable energy laboratory in partnership with mriglobal as part of the alliance for sustainable energy llc 2 oak ridge national laboratory through ut battelle llc a collaboration between battelle and the university of tennessee pacific northwest national laboratory additionally on behalf of the department of homeland security national biodefense analysis and countermeasures center national science foundation projects in march 2016 battelle was selected to manage the completion of the national ecological observatory network neon for the national science foundation . 4 technological and medical advances edit view of columbus facilities from king ave. in the 1940s battelle s vice president of engineering john crout made it possible for battelle researchers including william bixby and paul andrus to develop chester carlson s concept of dry copying . carlson had been turned down for funding by more than a dozen agencies including the u.s. navy . work led to the first commercial xerographic equipment and to the formation of xerox corporation . battelle also developed the first nuclear fuel rods for nuclear reactors numerous advances in metallurgy that helped advance the united states space program algorithms and coatings that led to the first optical digital recorder developed by james russell which paved the way for the first compact disc and the first generation jet engines using titanium alloys . 5 other advances included the armor plating for tanks in world war ii ; snopake the first correction fluid developed in 1955 ; the fuel for the first nuclear submarine the uss nautilus ssn 571 ; development of the universal product code in 1965 ; cruise control for automobiles in 1970 ; and the first all sputtered photovolatic cell for solar energy in 1974 . in 1987 piri a fiber optics venture with mitsubishi and ntt was launched which resulted in a 1.8 billion market . in conjunction with kevin m. amula battelle geneva developed no melt chocolate in 1988 . battelle has made numerous medical advances including a 1972 breakthrough development of special tubing to prevent blood clots during surgical procedures 6 and more recently the development of reusable insulin injection pen including dose memory with eli lilly and co. . battelle center for science and technology policy osu glenn edit battelle provides funds for a public policy research center at the john glenn college of public affairs of the ohio state university to focus on scholarly questions associated with science and technology policy . the battelle center for science and technology policy began official operation in july 2011 . see also edit chester carlson john crout raymond davis jr. top 100 us federal contractors future attribute screening technology fast references edit annual financial statement pdf . battelle memorial institute . archived pdf from the original on 19 november 2010 . retrieved 21 october 2010 . a b about the alliance . allianceforsustainableenergy.org . retrieved 2014 07 22 . battelle.org mervis jeffrey . nsf picks battelle to run neon . science mag . american association for the advancement of science . retrieved 7 april 2016 . battelle memorial institute firsts retrieved 26 july 2009 . st. louis 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