National Institute of Standards and Technology

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National Institute of Standards and Technology

US GOVERNMENT OFFICE

Called the National Bureau of Standards until 1988.

"Founded in 1901, NIST is a non-regulatory federal agency within the U.S. Commerce Department's Technology Administration. NIST's mission is to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life."

Official Website:
http://www.nist.gov/

Location:
Gaithersburg, MD

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Harold D. Babcock Astronomer 24-Jan-1882 8-Apr-1968 Solar radiation

Walter H. Brattain Physicist 10-Feb-1902 13-Oct-1987 Co-Inventor of the transistor

Vint Cerf Scientist 23-Jun-1943 Co-Designed Internet's TCP-IP protocol

William W. Coblentz Astronomer 20-Nov-1873 15-Sep-1962 Infrared spectroscopy

Edward Condon Physicist 2-Mar-1902 26-Mar-1974 Quantum Mechanics

Robert F. Curl, Jr. Chemist 23-Aug-1933 Co-Discovered fullerines

John C. Garand Inventor 1-Jan-1888 16-Feb-1974 M-1 semiautomatic rifle

Louise K. Goeser Business c. 1952 CEO of Ford Mexico

Mayo D. Hersey Engineer 30-Aug-1886 5-Sep-1978 Tribology

Roald Hoffmann Chemist 18-Jul-1937 Woodward-Hoffmann reaction

Robert Hofstadter Physicist 5-Feb-1915 17-Nov-1990 Size, shape, and structure of neutrons and protons

Deborah S. Jin Physicist c. 1968 Created a fermionic condensate

Polykarp Kusch Physicist 26-Jan-1911 20-Mar-1993 Magnetic moment of the electron

Jonathan Homer Lane Astronomer 9-Aug-1819 3-May-1880 Gravitational equilibrium of the Sun

Robert Mehrabian Business 31-Jul-1941 CEO of Teledyne

Paul W. Merrill Astronomer 15-Aug-1887 19-Jul-1961 S-process of nucleosynthesis

Charlotte E. Moore Astronomer 24-Sep-1898 3-Mar-1990 Technetium in the Sun

William D. Phillips Physicist 5-Nov-1948 Trapped atoms with laser light

Grote Reber Astronomer 22-Dec-1911 20-Dec-2002 First radio astronomer

Robert C. Richardson Physicist 26-Jun-1937 19-Feb-2013 Superfluidity of helium-3

Dan Shechtman Chemist 24-Jan-1941 Discovered quasicrystals

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