Headquartered in Mountain View, California is this institution mentioned in many sci-fi tales involving alien life.
SETI
The renowned laboratory of the Physics Department at the University of Cambridge named for a scientific great was home to nearly thirty Nobel Prize winners and features a crocodile image on one of its walls.
Cavendish Laboratory
Site in Tucson, Arizona which in the 1990s conducted two widely covered experiments evaluating closed-systems.
Biosphere 2
This Italian institution that has several underground facilities is located 120 kilometers from Rome and employs eminent physicists.
Gran Sasso
A Time magazine profile of this man claimed that the institution of laboratory was his greatest invention.
Edison
The Tektite habitat of the late 1960s was notable as being the first in which scientists performed experiments while in this type of environs.
Underwater/ undersea
The famous Hale Telescope is among the many operated by this observatory named for the California mountain range which it stands on.
Palomar
Eating peanuts before critical missions is a tradition at this institution managed by Caltech for NASA. The laboratory's primary function is the operation of robotic spacecraft and its many successes include the Rover and Opportunity that went to Mars.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
The Sanford Underground Research Facility in the Black Hills of this US state focuses on experiments in dark matter and neutrino research.
South Dakota
Largest employer in northern New Mexico whose premises was the center of a project that changed world history in the 20th century.
Los Alamos National Laboratory (Manhattan Project)
The Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) which was home to several innovations of the IT world like laser printing, GUI, and Ethernet was originally a research wing of this company.
Xerox
W. M. Keck Observatory is not only known for its role in helping researchers discover more about the universe but for its being located on the summit of this mountain, itself a tourist attraction.
Mauna Kea (Hawaii)
Ulugh Beg Observatory was a noted site of Islamic science in the centuries past and is located in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, the capital of this Turko-Mongol conqueror's empire.
Tamerlane
The experiment colloquially called LIGO was conducted at two locations in Washington and Louisiana states and was aimed at detecting these entities predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity.
Gravitational waves
The second-largest particle accelerator in the world which is located outside Chicago is at this institution named for an Italian-born great.
Fermilab
On a popular PBS children's program that aired from 1993 to 1998, this laboratory that showed experiments was named for the host himself.
Nye Laboratories (Bill Nye the Science Guy)
Wardenclyffe Tower in Shoreham, New York whose likeness was adapted in the movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was designed by this man who intended to showcase it for demonstrations of wireless power transmission.
Tesla
Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 at this renowned observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Lowell Observatory
Because the conditional reflexes he was studying required complete isolation of the subjects, a building he called the "Tower of Silence" was constructed. Bells and salivating dogs followed.
Pavlov
This renowned institution in England, abbreviated LMB, was where the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid was discovered and DNA sequencing invented.
Laboratory of Molecular Biology
People who won Nobel Prizes for their work at these labs located in Murray Hill, New Jersey are Steven Chu, John Bardeen, and the team of Penzias/Wilson. The site has also been home to seminal developments of the IT world like the Unix operating system, and C programming language.
Bell Labs
The laboratory in the basement of St. Mary's Hospital in London was the site of this man's famous discovery on September 28, 1928.
Alexander Fleming (penicillin)
Located on Mountain Hamilton in California, this famous observatory was the site of several discoveries including many moons of Jupiter and more recently, several exoplanets.
Lick
Noted laboratory on Long Island, New York that was home to researchers who won several Nobel Prizes.
Brookhaven
Seven experiments (CMS, ATLAS, LHCb, MoEDAL, TOTEM, LHC-forward and ALICE) to investigate the sub-atomic universe run on this device which is the focus of much attention at CERN in Switzerland.
Large Hadron Collider
St Thomas's Abbey, Brno in the Czech Republic was where this man worked from 1856 to 1863 and laid the foundation of a very important branch of science.
Gregor Mendel
Located on a Danish island, Uraniborg was a noted astronomical observatory that was operated by this 16th century scientific great. Need more? He was assisted by Johannes Kepler towards the end of his life.
Tycho Brahe
The World Wide Web began as a project at this seminal institution that is otherwise known for cutting-edge physics experiments.
CERN
If you hear the name of Volta Laboratory and Bureau located in Washington, D.C., only this name should come to mind.
Alexander Graham Bell