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Gaithersburg

Radiation Detection Standards for Homeland Security

After the September 11, 2001, attacks, the fear that nuclear materials could be smuggled in one of the millions of storage containers that...

Paul Witherell was accepted into the ASME 2016-2017 Early Career Leadership Intern Program to Serve Engineering

Recognized as a promising early career and future leader in mechanical engineering

Manganese Bath Facility

The manganese sulfate bath facility in Building 245 provides a method for accurately measuring the rate of neutron emissions from a...

Moneer Helu is Awarded the NAE 2019 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

Recognized as an outstanding early career engineer invited to an intensive symposium to facilitate cross-disciplinary exchange in order to

Shaw Feng Receives ASTM Award of Appreciation

Recognized for contributions towards the standardization of key performance indicators in sustainable manufacturing in ASTM E60.13

William Bernstein Receives ASME 2019 CIE Young Engineer Award

Recognized as a promising young investigator who is making outstanding contributions to the progress in the application of computers in

Shao Guodong Receives WinterSim Distinguished Service Award

Recognized for his contributions towards the organization of the INFORMS Winter Simulation Conference

Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility

The NIST Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility-III (SURF-III) is a third-generation electron “storage ring,” so named because electrons...

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Radon Calibration Facility

Radon-222 is a naturally occurring radioactive byproduct of radium-226. Radon is a known carcinogen, and the radon detection and mitigation...

Editor Window

Introduction The Editor Window can be found at: Window--> Editor and allows editing of several types of NICE files: Trajectories Sequences...

Custom Command Pages

Intro It can be accessed at: Window-->Custom Commands. This GUI provides a convenient shortcut for running common commands. This GUI can...

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Cobalt-60 Pool Source

In 1965, on the newly built Gaithersburg, Maryland, campus of the National Bureau of Standards (NBS, now the National Institute of Standards...

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Linac

A linear accelerator, or “linac,” is basically a long hollow pipe, depleted of nearly all its air, through which electrons are accelerated...

Positive-Ion Van de Graaff Accelerator

A Van de Graaff accelerator is an electrostatic generator that, like rubbing a balloon, uses a moving belt to accumulate electric charge on...

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Mammographic X-Ray Facility

Women undergoing mammography exams at accredited U.S. facilities can be assured of receiving proper X-ray exposures thanks to the National...

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Isotope Separator Laboratory Facility

The Isotope Separator Laboratory (ISL) is in the E wing of Building 245. Built in 1967, the isotope separator was used to produce microgram...

Joseph W. Motz

1918-present Joseph W. Motz received his B.S. in physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1941 and his M.S. from Cornell University...

James E. Leiss

1924-2008 James E. Leiss received his B.S. in physics from Case Institute of Technology in 1946; his M.S. in physics from the University...

Harold Wyckoff

1910-1999 Harold Wyckoff received his B.S. in physics from the University of Washington in 1934. He earned his Ph.D. from the University...

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William L. McLaughlin

1928-2005 William L. McLaughlin received a B.S. in physics from Hampton-Sydney College in 1949. He was hired at the National Bureau of...

Wilfrid B. Mann

1908-2001 Wilfrid Mann received his B.Sc. in math and physics from Imperial College London in 1930 and his Ph.D. in physics from the...

Robert Madden

1928-2014 Robert Madden received his B.S. in physics from the University of Rochester in 1950, and he earned his Ph.D. in physics from...

Robert Loevinger

1916-2005 Robert Loevinger received his B.A. in astronomy and mathematics with minor in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1936...

Herman William Koch

1920-2020 Herman William Koch received his B.S. in physics and mathematics from Queens College, City University of New York, in 1941. He...

John Hubbell

1925-2007 John Hubbell received his B.S.E. in engineering physics from the University of Michigan in 1940. He earned his M.S. in physics...

Raymond W. Hayward

1921-2001 Raymond Hayward received his B.S. in physics from Iowa State College in 1943 and earned his Ph.D. in physics from the...

Evans V. Hayward

1922-2020 Evans V. Hayward earned her B.A. in physics at Smith College in 1942; her M.A. in physics from the University of California in...

ACMD Seminar: Quantifying Flows in Time-Irreversible Markov Chains: Application to a Gene Regulatory Network

Danielle Middlebrooks University of Maryland-College Park, Applied Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computing Program Thursday...

Margaret Ehrlich

1915-2007 Margaret Ehrlich received her undergraduate degree in physics at the University of Vienna in 1938. From 1941-47, she was chief...

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