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NIST and the Federal Reserve Bank

September 28, 2016

In 1920 NIST built, then promptly destroyed, a series of reinforced concrete vaults for the Federal Reserve Board. The goal was to determine the thickness of...

Methane Symmetry Operations - Triply Degenerate Vibrational Wave Functions

13. Application of the Continuous Three-Dimensional Rotation-Reflection Group to Triply Degenerate Vibrational Wave Functions 13.1 Spherical...

Methane Symmetry Operations - Comparison of the Present Treatment

12. Comparison of the Present Treatment with Those of Jahn and Moret-Bailly As mentioned earlier, the three most commonly followed...

NIST Organizes Challenge to Uncover Impacts of Federal Lab Research

September 27, 2016

From GPS to genetics, sensors to cell phones, many of today’s technological advances have been enabled or developed through federal research programs. Of the...

October 2016 VCAT Meeting Agenda

AGENDA VISITING COMMITTEE ON ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY National Institute of Standards and Technology Katharine Blodgett Gebbie Laboratory...

From the Archives: The NIST PILOT Computer, 1961

September 27, 2016

Designed by NIST in 1958, the NIST PILOT computer contained three independently programmed systems that could communicate and work together concurrently on a...

NIST at the World's Fair

September 27, 2016

The World’s Fair exhibitions are some of the most famous events in modern history, from the Exposition Universelle of 1889, whose front gate was the temporary...

Hey, My Grandma Still Uses That Stove!

September 27, 2016

Under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975, the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) conducted household appliance efficiency testing to assist the...

NIST Biographies

Here is a listing of some select biographies for NIST Scientists Jacob Rabinow

Jacob Rabinow

Jacob Rabinow (1910-1999) was one of the most creative, dedicated, wide-ranging, productive, and colorful civil servants ever to grace the...

Microfluidic Synthesis of Nanoparticles

Liposomes are nanometer-sized spherical vesicles made of phospholipids similar to those found in cell membranes of living organisms. Traditional techniques to

NIST plumbing research, circa the 1940s.

The Bureau’s 60-Year-Old Urban Legend

“A plumber wrote to the Bureau of Standards saying that he had found hydrochloric acid good for cleaning out clogged drains. The bureau...

Earley’s concrete-mosaic entrance to the Walker Building on 15th St. NW in D.C.

The Men Who Made Concrete Beautiful

There probably aren’t too many NIST researchers who can say that their physical science experiments started an artistic movement. But in the...

A Weighty Mistake

The kilogram is getting a lot of attention lately. From the divergence between the mass of the international and national prototypes to the...

The Rediscovery of the NBS Crime Lab

Or How an NBS Dental Materials Researcher Became ‘Detective X’ “Is that a corpse?” As the NIST Museum curator, I find unusual things in the...

‘The Fifth Man’: The Cambridge Spy Ring and Wilfrid Mann

It is safe to say that on an otherwise uneventful Thursday evening in November 1979, National Bureau of Standards (NBS) scientist Wilfrid...

Live Cell Imaging of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Populations

Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) populations are complex, dynamic and heterogeneous. Individual cells within a population are constantly changing, while

Current Opportunities

Work at NIST! Join us and be part of a team providing research or support toward efforts that stimulate innovation, foster industrial...

A NIST Museum Find

May 12, 2016

A flash of silver caught my eye. It also brought me up short. What in the world? I stooped to inspect the object of my curiosity on the lower shelf of a Museum...

Uncovering the story of Detective X

June 10, 2016

On June 10, 2016, NIST Fellow John Butler teamed with ISO’s Museum Curator Kristen Frederick-Frost to present a NIST Colloquium about Wilmer Souder and the...

More History Resources

Online Exhibits

Explore the exhibits by clicking on their titles below.

Archived Digital Exhibits

Below are links to the NIST Virtual Museum legacy exhibits that have been archived on the Internet Archive WayBack Machine. The Collapse of...

History Publications

This page provides links to the official NBS/NIST history books: Measures for Progress, A Unique Institution, and Responding to National...

Primary Focus Areas

Engineering Biology Rapid advances in the ability to genetically modify biological organisms have advanced a new engineering discipline...

Test Assertions for VVSG 1.1, Volume 1, Section 7.5.2, September 23, 2016 (tabular)

Summary Tabular Format Requirement Assertion(s) VVSG 1.1, Vol 1, Requirement 7.5.2: Protection Against External Threats a. Voting systems...

Museum

From platinum bars to toilet paper, the NIST Museum has a diverse collection of over 1,500 objects and scientific instruments that relate to...

Test Assertions for VVSG 1.1, Volume 1, Section 7.8.5, September 23, 2016 (tabular)

Summary Tabular Format Requirement Assertion(s) VVSG 1.1, Vol 1, Requirement 7.8.5: Preserving Voter Privacy VVPAT records can be printed...

Test Assertions for VVSG 1.1, Volume 1, Section 7.8.5, September 23, 2016

VVSG 1.1, Vol 1, Requirement 7.8.5: Preserving Voter Privacy VVPAT records can be printed and stored by two different methods: Printed and...

Test Assertions for VVSG 1.1, Volume 1, Section 7.8.4, September 23, 2016 (tabular)

Summary Tabular Format Requirement Assertion(s) VVSG 1.1, Vol 1, Requirement 7.8.4: Equipment Security and Reliability a. The VVPAT printer...

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