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’Twas the night before Christmas; NIST staff had gone home. Our director was left to reflect all alone. She thought about NIST and the breadth of its work, from
While the pandemic still grips the world, researchers at NIST continue their work on COVID-19 related research, as well as the wide range of other science and
“Wow, that’s cool, but the meter was defined a long time ago, so what is really there for you to do?” This is the response I get from people when I tell them
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What are you looking to measure? This is one of the central questions for a metrologist (a measurement scientist) and is usually answered before measurements
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