NIST Unscripted Series: Video Credits

Ray Simmonds

What is a qubit?

Videos

• Binary code rushing forward: Revostock
• Qubits in line shifting between 1 and 0 states: Karl "Chip" Nyman, Nyman Digital Arts
• Two qubits, one each in 1 and 0 states: NIST
• Electron flow inside microchip: Revostock

What is a quantum bus?

Video

• NIST Boulder Laboratories: NIST

What inspired you to become a scientist?

Videos

• Young boy playing with helicopter: Revostock
• Toddlers on floor playing with windup ladybug toy: Revostock

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Kent Irwin

What is a transition edge sensor?

Photographs

• Photo of transition edge sensor: NIST
• Graphic showing composition of sensor: NIST

What are some of the more earthly applications of transition edge sensors?

Animations

• Animation showing how transition edge sensor works: NIST
• Exploding star: NASA
• Big Bang gases in space: NASA
• Galaxies in space: NASA

Videos  

• Researcher looking at sensor under microscope: NIST
• Fuel rods being removed from a nuclear reactor: Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Photos

• Image of cosmic microwave background radiation by COBE satellite: NASA

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Marla Dowell

Describe the next generation of optical detectors being built by NIST

Photographs

• Black disc made from carbon nanotubes: NIST
• White nanotube array: NIST

Videos

• Blue hexagonal shapes in motion: Revostock
• Carbon nanotube rolling up: Revostock

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John Butler

How did NIST help identify the victims of the World Trade Center disaster?

Animations

• DNA double helix with chemical formulas in background: Revostock

How did Butler get interested in forensic DNA analysis?

Photographs    

• Teenaged John Butler superimposed over news clips: John Butler

Why is it important that DNA testing be done well?

Animations

• Moving green DNA profile bands: Revostock

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Bill Phillips

Atomic clocks segment (starting at 4 minutes 32 seconds)

Animations

• Clocks with spinning hands: Revostock
• Satellite in space: Revostock
• Wall of computer screens with satellite data: Revostock

Video

• Car drive with watch: Revostock

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Elena Messina

When is it good for robots to take over?

Animations

• Robotic arm: Revostock

Video

• Robots in collapsed buildingat Disaster City: Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service
• Robot point-of-view inside Fukishima Nuclear Reactor, Japan: Tokyo Electric PowerCompany

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Tim Foecke

What is a mechanical metallurgist?

Animations

• Rolling small-hole metal sheet: Revostock

Videos    

• Researcher bending metal: NIST

How does metallurgy protect the past and build the future?

Animations

• Rotating "Swiss cheese" metal sheet: Revostock

Photographs    

• Brooklyn Bridge: Public domain via Wikipedia
• USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: U.S. Navy

Videos    

• Statue of Liberty head with clouds in background: Revostock
• NIST Center for Automotive Lightweighting: NIST

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David Wineland

What makes a quantum computer so powerful?

Animations    

• Quantum spin states: Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, University of Calgary
• Qubits in line shifting between 1 and 0 states: Karl "Chip" Nyman, Nyman Digital Arts
• Zoom across microchip surface: Revostock
• Galaxy in space: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

How can you use a quantum computer?

Animations  

• Circuit board in action: Revostock
• Data streaming on screen: Revostock
• Moving lines of computer code: Revostock
• Data encryption tunnel: Revostock
• Supercollisions, Higgs boson and Standard Model: CERN

Photographs

• Peter Shor: Peter Shor, MIT

Video

• Supercomputer: NOAA and NASA Center for Climate Simulation

Why is NIST involved in quantum computer research?

Video

• Dave Wineland Laboratory Productions: Breck Larson, Breck Larson Productions

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Sheng Lin-Gibson

Animations

• Overview of modern dental office: Shutterstock
• Teeth with bacterial film on them: Medical animation used with permission by Flix Productions
• X-ray image of head showing chewing of pizza: Medical animation used with permission by Flix Productions
• Tooth remineralization: Medical animation used with permission by Flix Productions

Photographs

• X-ray of mouth showing teeth: Public domain via Wikipedia
• Archival photo of U.S. War Department in 1918: Public domain via Wikipedia
• Archival photo of WWI soldiers cheering: Public domain via Wikipedia
• Archival photo of WWI field dentists at work: Public domain via Wikipedia
• Archival photo of WWI soldier climbing out of trench: Public domain via Wikipedia
• Archival photo of WWI soldiers in trench: Public domain via Wikipedia
• Archival photo of NBS Laboratories in 1918: NIST
• Archival photo of Army dentists operating in 1918: Library of Virginia
• Composite materials in dental model: NIST

Videos 

• Entrance sign at NIST (Gaithersburg, MD): NIST
• NIST researcher examining tooth under microscope: NIST
• High-speed dental drill being used: Shutterstock
• Panoramic dental X-ray device being used: Shutterstock
• Researcher working on dental prosthetic: NIST