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Taking Measure

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Jim Olthoff

Jim Olthoff is currently serving as the Associate Director for Laboratory Programs and is responsible for the entire technical program of NIST. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maryland and did postdoctoral research at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine before coming to NIST more than 30 years ago.

For All Times, For All Peoples: How Replacing the Kilogram Empowers Industry

November 27, 2018

Two unusual things happened on Nov. 16, 2018. Fifty-four nations from every continent (except Antarctica) agreed on something, and metrology, the science of

Science, Science Fiction, and Superheroes

June 2, 2016

I’m a physicist, and as anyone who watches the popular TV series “ The Big Bang Theory” knows, it’s a commonly held conception that there is a strong connection

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