Battelle Memorial Institute

The Battelle Institute is a nonprofit organization established for contract research. The Institute serves scientific- technical research, particularly in the context of patent law developments and commercial applications.

It was founded in 1929 from a foundation of industrialist Gordon Battelle in Columbus ( Ohio) and also maintains research facilities in Aberdeen ( Maryland), Richland (Washington) and Geneva. The Institute in Frankfurt am Main ( Battelle Institute for Nuclear Physics) was closed mid-1990s.

On October 19, 1956, a UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer produced in the United States, for the first time officially started in Germany by Carl Hammer, Director of the Battelle Institute in Frankfurt, in operation.