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Taking Measure

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George Orji

George Orji is a mechanical engineer in the Nanoscale and Nanostructure Metrology Group in the Microsystems and Nanotechnology Division of the Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

What To Do When Measurement Methods Produce Different Answers

April 2, 2019

What are you looking to measure? This is one of the central questions for a metrologist (a measurement scientist) and is usually answered before measurements

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