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Taking Measure

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Yuri Ralchenko

Yuri Ralchenko graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in Russia with a degree in theoretical physics. His career journey took him to the Institute of Spectroscopy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, then the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, and finally, to NIST. While Yuri’s scientific interests are primarily in atomic physics for plasmas, he is also captivated by history, astronomy, and art.