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2016 AAAS Fellow - Ron Boisvert

Ron Boisvert is recognized for his distinguished contributions to the fields of mathematical software and computational science, excellence in public administration of science, and service to the computing profession.
NIST physicists Irwin Priest and Chauncey Peters, 1918

NIST Neutral as Butter War Spreads

In 1917, NIST physicists Irwin Priest and Chauncey Peters were drawn into the so-called Butter War, an early 20 th century commercial and political spat between...
PROSPECT detector diagram

In Search of ‘Sterile’ Neutrinos

Lately, neutrinos – the tiny, nearly massless particles that many scientists study to better understand the fundamental workings of the universe – have been...
An image of Ernest Kent from NIST’s Industrial Systems Division is analyzed by the Pipelined Image Processing Engine (PIPE) in 1986.

Computer Vision 1986

An image of Ernest Kent from NIST’s Industrial Systems Division is analyzed by the Pipelined Image Processing Engine (PIPE) in 1986. PIPE was an image...

SP 330 - Version History

Example of how to reference this online document: David B. Newell and Eite Tiesinga, Editors (2019), The International System of Units (SI)...
Harry Keegan seated at mechanical calculator CIE color coordinates of standard sources, 1958

Calculating Color

Harry Keegan of NIST’s Photometry & Colorimetry Division using a mechanical calculator in 1958 to compute color coordinates for standard sources.
A 300,000-volt simulated lightning bolt produced in NIST’s high-voltage measurement laboratory in 1984.

Lightning in the Lab

A 300,000-volt simulated lightning bolt produced in NIST’s high-voltage measurement laboratory in 1984. NIST helped utilities and manufacturers determine what...

5421: Contract Review

Thu, Aug 17 2017
This 2 hour webinar will introduce the fundamentals of contract review that are necessary to meet customer expectations

ACMD Seminar Series

The Applied and Computational Mathematics Division holds a regular Seminar Series with participation in both the Gaithersburg and Boulder...

NIST Covering Array Tables

The tables of covering arrays that are accessible from this website are maintained as part of the Automated Combinatorial Testing for...
Testing Stucco Panels at NIST

NIST Tests Home Construction

A giant Rubik’s Cube? An early modernist-style building? We weren’t sure what to make of this photo taken on the NIST campus in 1911. Turns out it was a two...
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