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Taking Measure

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Josh Pomeroy

Josh Pomeroy has been an experimental physicist at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) since 2003. He performs fundamental research that seeks to understand how improvements in existing materials, device fabricated from those materials, and their processing can improve the performance of systems used in technology and metrology. He graduated from Cornell University with a Ph.D. in physics and received his undergraduate degree in physics from Boston University.

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