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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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