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Taking Measure

Just a Standard Blog

Ron Cowen

NIST Physicist’s Once Obscure Work Is Now Helping Researchers Learn About the Origins of the Universe

May 1, 2024

A NIST researcher worked in obscurity for years — until his work was needed to help us understand the origins of our universe.

Historical photo shows two rows of women working at long tables.

New Jersey’s ‘Radium Girls’ and the NIST-Trained Scientist Who Came to Their Aid

March 16, 2022

As a former laboratory assistant in the radium section of NIST, Elizabeth Hughes had just the right credentials to serve as an expert for the women's legal case

Minding your Peas and Carrots: Please Try This at Home

August 5, 2020

NIST physicist Zachary Levine doesn’t cook that often, but when he does it can easily turn into a science experiment. Two years ago, after he and his wife had

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