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Satellite Measures Sun's True Power

January 27, 2003

Scientists expect to gain important information about the sun's effect on the Earth's atmosphere and climate from sophisticated instruments—all calibrated by...

Gebbie Wins Service to America Medal

November 14, 2002

The following is an excerpt from the awards ceremony program for the Service to America Medals. The awards are a joint program of Government Executive, National...

NIST Materials Science Pioneer John Cahn To Receive Bower Award from Franklin Institute

January 28, 2002

The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today that materials scientist John Cahn will receive the 2002...

NIST Helps Ensure Well-Timed Sledding at Winter Olympics

January 2, 2002

Sliding down the icy side of a mountain on steel runners, racers in the bobsled, luge and skeleton events reach some of the highest speeds of any Olympic Winter...

Cornell and Wieman Share 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics

October 9, 2001

Quotes About the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics Winners Press Conference (Transcript) Bose-Einstein Condensate: A New Form of Matter (backgrounder) Nobel Prize in...

Bose-Einstein Condensate: A New Form of Matter

October 9, 2001

Capturing the "Holy Grail" Eric A. Cornell of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Carl E. Wieman of the University of Colorado at Boulder led...

From Supernova to Smoke Ring: Recent Experiments Underscore Weirdness of the Bose-Einstein Condensate

March 12, 2001

Bose-Einstein condensates can sometimes explode like a pocket-sized supernova, but when they're not doing that they can look like the inside of a cigar bar...

Breakthroughs in Thin-Film Magnetic Devices Earn NIST Stratton Award for Robert D. McMichael

November 30, 2000

The National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the Commerce Department's Technology Administration, has presented its 2000 Samuel Wesley...

Gaithersburg Man Honored for Distinguished Science Writing

November 30, 2000

Neil M. Zimmerman, has received the 2000 Edward Uhler Condon Award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the Commerce Department...

New Commerce Department Magnetic Microscope Helps Retrieve Information From Damaged or Altered Tapes

July 13, 2000

Audio cassettes, video tapes, credit cards and computer disks all store valuable information using very small magnetic tracks. Sometimes, these tracks are...

NIST's Cornell Elected to National Academy of Sciences

May 2, 2000

Eric A. Cornell, a physicist at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology, has been elected a member of the National Academy of...

NIST/Lucent Team Develops Method for Ultraprecise

April 27, 2000

Researchers from the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology and Bell Laboratories of Lucent Technologies have teamed to produce a...

NIST Links to State Weights and Measures Labs in New MEASUREnet-gov

January 21, 2000

Consumers and businesses can look forward to improved accuracy in the system of weights and measures thanks to MEASUREnet-gov, a new effort at the National...

NIST Scientists Cross the Bridge between Atomic and Real Worlds

January 19, 2000

In 1996, researchers at the Boulder, Colo., laboratories of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology confirmed the belief that a...

Wieman and Cornell Receive Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics

January 13, 2000

Carl Wieman of the University of Colorado at Boulder and Eric Cornell of the National Institute of Standards and Technology have been awarded the 2000 Benjamin...

Neutron Trapping Demonstrated for First Time at NIST

January 5, 2000

Scientists have demonstrated for the first time that they can confine neutrons, one of the basic particles of matter, in a three-dimensional magnetic trap, an...

NIST-F1 Cesium Fountain Clock

December 29, 1999

There's nothing like the joy of receiving a precision timepiece as a holiday gift. Thanks to the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and...

New Values for Natural Constants Available on NIST Web Site

December 6, 1999

New values for the fundamental constants of nature are now available from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the Commerce...

Two NIST Scientists Honored for Education Efforts

December 1, 1999

Marc F. Desrosiers, and Paul D. Lett, today received the Equal Employment Opportunity/Diversity Award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

Dixson and Fu Receive NIST Applied Research Award

December 1, 1999

Ronald G. Dixson, and Joseph N. Fu, today received the Applied Research Award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Dixson, a physicist, and...

New Web Site Puts Atomic Time on Your Computer

October 14, 1999

The official U.S. time in any U.S. time zone now can be obtained from the new Internet web site, www.time.gov, maintained by the Boulder Laboratories of the...

Physicists Catch Best Waves Ever from New, Improved SURF III at NIST

September 16, 1999

Upgrades to the Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility at the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology are yielding greatly...

NIST/CU Scientists First to Observe New Quantum Gas

September 9, 1999

Researchers at JILA, a joint research institute of the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado at...

One Electron, Two Electrons...

September 9, 1999

Researchers at the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology will announce in tomorrow’s issue of Science magazine that they have...

Gerald T. Frazer Receives Arthur S. Flemming Award

June 10, 1999

Gerald T. Fraser, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and resident of Montgomery Village, Md., today received the Arthur S...

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