DOE R&D Accomplishments Brings You More!

To enhance the user's experience, multiple additions have been made to DOE R&D Accomplishments [3].  These include

*    *more information about the content of DOE R&D Accomplishments and a brief history of DOE and predecessors [4], available on a new About [5] page,

*    *additional ways to navigate -- via the faceted menu and the Menu Synopsis [6] page, which contains menu items and links, each accompanied by a very brief description,

*    *the ability to Share (at the top of each page), which provides the opportunity to share a DOE R&D Accomplishments web page,

*    *and a blog [7], which provides comments about and calls attention to the multiple diverse aspects of the DOE R&D Accomplishments unique and specialized collection.

The new feature page is about Nobel Laureate Melvin Calvin [8], whose landmark research and body of scientific work into how plants capture energy from the sun resulted in a key series of reports about the path of carbon in photosynthesis, eventually sparking the U.S. Department of Energy's solar energy research. This feature page contains links to twenty-one electronic documents in this key series, "The Path of Carbon in Photosynthesis", in addition to two summary-level electronic documents written in 1952 and 1960. Also available is Calvin's Nobel Prize lecture from 1961.

DOE R&D Accomplishments [3] is a central forum for information about the outcomes of past DOE R&D that have had significant economic impact, have improved people's lives, or have been widely recognized as a remarkable advance in science. An R&D accomplishment is the outcome of past research whose benefits are being realized now.

Mary Schorn

OSTI