Brookhaven
Americannoun
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One that drew attention was “Tennis for Two,” created by physicist William Higinbotham at the Brookhaven National Laboratory for a public exhibition in 1958.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
Playing and role-playing with friends is crucial to the success of Roblox, and why life simulations like Brookhaven are so popular.
From Barron's • Nov. 26, 2025
These titles build on the success of 2020 hit Brookhaven, where kids role-play life in the titular suburb.
From Barron's • Nov. 26, 2025
“The habitation of these people on the island,” one Brookhaven National Laboratory scientist wrote in a 1957 report, “will afford the most valuable ecological radiation data on human beings.”
From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025
The delay allowed Lawrence to exploit Groves’s largess without competition: by the time Brookhaven was chartered, the foundations for Lawrence’s three new accelerators already had been laid.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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