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NIST at 100: Foundations for Progress
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100 years, the National Institute of Standards and Technology
has helped to keep U.S. technology at the leading edge. Over
the years, NIST has made solid contributions to image processing,
DNA diagnostic "chips," smoke detectors, and automated
error-correcting software for machine tools. NIST also
has
had major impact
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Ca.
1920--a NIST staff member listens with something like
incredulity to a radio broadcast picked up by a homemade
crystal set.
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on atomic
clocks, X-ray standards for mammography, scanning tunneling
microscopy, pollution-control technology, and high-speed dental
drills.
Founded
on March 3, 1901, as the National
Bureau of Standards, NIST was the federal government's
first physical science research laboratory. NIST's major accomplishments
of the past 100 years and their impact on industry, science
and technology, the nation's economy, and the public—are
described in NIST at 100: Foundations
for Progress, an extensive, illustrated web site. Another
fact
sheet briefly summarizes the
benefits of NIST's research and services.
More
links about NIST and history
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more about NIST and history: |
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See
a sampling of the impacts NIST has had on industry,
science, consumers,
technology, and national
security. |
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Take
a look at
"A
Century of Excellence in Measurements, Standards, and Technology
- A Chronicle of Selected NBS/NIST Publications, 1901 - 2000"
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What's
in a name--from NBS to NIST |
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Check
out our Centennial events |
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Try
our Centennial crossword puzzle
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Tour
our Virtual Museum, which
features an exhibit on the history of weights and measures. |
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Take
a Walk
Through Time—an illustrated history of timekeeping. |
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See
historical exhibits relating to time
and frequency. |
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Find
out how NIST helps protect America's Charters
of Freedom—the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution,
and the Bill of Rights. |
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Explore
NIST’s connections
to baseball, past and present. |
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Learn about Marie Curie and the NIST
(NBS) Radium Standards. |
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Discover
how NIST scientists invented an instrument that preceded the
scanning
tunneling microscope. |
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Learn
how a major theory of physics—parity—was
disproved. |
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Here
is a sampling
of story ideas from today's NIST. |
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Find
out who has led NIST over the years. |
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President
Bush congratulates NIST on its Centennial |
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State
governors congratulate NIST on its Centennial |
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Remarks
by Donald Evans, Secretary of Commerce, at the NIST Centennial
Gala, March 6, 2001, Washington, DC. |
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Remarks
by Thomas A. Manuel, Chair, NIST Visiting Committee on Advanced
Technology, at the NIST Centennial Gala, March 6, 2001, Washington,
DC. |
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Remarks
by Karen Brown, Acting NIST Director, at the NIST Centennial
Gala, March 6, 2001, Washington, DC. |
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Remarks
by Congressman Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), at the NIST Centennial
Gala, March 6, 2001, Washington, DC. |
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Members
of the news media interested in more centennial information
should contact Michael
Newman. |
Find out what
NIST is doing today and how it affects you:
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NIST
in Your House |
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NIST
and Your City |
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NIST
homepage |
General
NIST inquiries: Public
Inquiries Unit: (301) 975-NIST (6478) , TTY (301) 975-8295
NIST, 100 Bureau
Drive, Stop 3460, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-3460.
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Date created:
11/1/2000
Last updated: 8/14/07
Contact: inquiries@nist.gov
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