1961
For the first time since it was opened in 1949, the American Museum of Atomic Energy was visited by more than 100,000 people in a single year--1961. That same year, more than nine million people visited traveling exhibits presented in 49 states.
In 1961, a colony of South American marmosets was established at the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies (ORINS) to study the immune aspects of bone marrow transplantation.
Photo, right: An ORINS employee holds an adult marmoset used in the immunology program's studies on the immune aspects of bone marrow transplantation, first begun in the early 1960s.