75 years of physics at NBS
AUG 01, 1976
A proud survey of the highlights of three quarters of a century of accurate measurements at the National Bureau of Standards, and first‐rate research in virtually every field of pure and applied physics.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3023612
The year 1901, just two years after the founding of The American Physical Society, saw the founding of the National Bureau of Standards as the US reference laboratory for measurements and standards. Physics is indispensable to the fulfillment of this function, and the two organizations have enjoyed a close working relationship in these seventy‐five years.
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Ernest Ambler, National Bureau of Standards.
© 1976 American Institute of Physics
