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NBS moves to Gaithersburg

NOV 01, 1966
Although some retire at age 65, the National Bureau of Standards is more active than ever. At its new home, being dedicated this month some 2700 people will be working. Most of the equipment and staff have already left the crowded, obsolete Washington site and occupy 15 of the buildings planned.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3047813

Gloria B. Lubkin

THIS MONTH the world’s largest physical science laboratory, the National Bureau of Standards, is dedicating its new facility at Gaithersburg, Maryland. We recently visited the 565‐acre site, to which most of the activities formerly housed on Van Ness Street in northwest Washington have been moved. In addition three major new facilities for which the old site was unsuited have been completed in Gaithersburg. These are a high‐intensity 100‐MeV electron linear accelerator (linac), a 10‐megawatt heavy‐water‐moderated reactor for materials research and a collection of highly accurate deadweight machines to calibrate force‐measuring devices.

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