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Taking Measure

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Bert Coursey

Bert Coursey is currently a guest researcher in the Standards Coordination Office at NIST. He received a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Georgia and came to the NIST Radioactivity Group in 1972. He has spent 45 years at NIST–with nine of these on detail to the Department of Homeland Security. He pursues outside interests including jogging, kayaking and beach walking with family in South Carolina Lowcountry.

Saving Marie Curie’s Last Radium Standard

February 22, 2017

Marie Curie is perhaps the most famous woman of 20th-century science. Major motion pictures and best-selling biographies have chronicled her discovery of the

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