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stainless steel weights

Top NIST Images of 2018

February 6, 2019
Robin Materese
… future. Math as art?     Now, this is a TRUE example of STEAM (Science-Technology-Engineering-Art-Mathematics)! Created by NIST mathematician …
3-D printing with concrete

Printing with Concrete: How I Spent My Summer Vacation

August 15, 2017
Austin Thomas
… in preparing the cement and labeling every specimen with as much information as possible. Cement paste formulations are very sensitive … me to apply my existing knowledge of 3-D printing and manufacturing technology while gaining knowledge in materials characterization and …
white pi symbol on a grey field made up of the numbers of pi

The Life of (Buckingham) Pi

March 12, 2020
C.W. Clark
… at the agency that became the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Indeed, the Web of Science academic database records … simulation research … Physics … Atomic / molecular / quantum … Quantum information science … The Life of (Buckingham) Pi …
MS. Ampere at the movies

More Power to You, Wonder Woman!

June 16, 2017
Ms. Ampere
First, let me say that I’m totally energized by the good press my dear acquaintance Wonder Woman has been receiving lately. It’s absolutely electrifying to see a strong woman get good publicity! And she has done some wonderful things, what with defending the world from evil-doers and all. Maybe with
photo of a house. Solar panels on the roof.

That House on the Hill: Bringing Measurement Science Home

February 15, 2019
Bill Healy
When people ask NIST employees what they do, we often rely on the somewhat nebulous term “measurement science.” To many in the technical community, NIST’s role in measurement science is clear because they are often surrounded by instruments that bear some sort of NIST-traceable calibration
Connected gray boxes with x's at each intersection of red and yellow and yellow arrow across the design

Revolution by Design: The Materials Genome Initiative

August 17, 2016
Jim Warren
… the rewards. Fortuitously, that year the Office of Science and Technology Policy put out a call to federal researchers to participate … Chuck Romine and I were selected to serve on the National Science and Technology Council committee that drafted the white paper (PDF) that … me, I need to go tinker with my tritanium recipe. … Electronics … Information technology … Data and informatics … Manufacturing … …
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