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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 … Quantum information science …
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
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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
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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 … Information technology …
Mary Kombolias load a small blue piece of paper into a dielectric spectrometer.

Chasing Paper: Adventures in Fiber Analysis

March 7, 2019
Mary Kombolias
Growing up in New Orleans, Louisiana, I had no scientific aspirations as a child. I do remember being entertained by science, relishing public television programs such as Newton’s Apple, Bill Nye the Science Guy and Square One, but I never saw science as a career path. It was not for lack of
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