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Organizational Changes at NBS

MAY 01, 1962
Physics Today

The Radio Standards Laboratory of the National Bureau of Standards in Boulder, Colo., has been divided into a Radio Physics Division and a Circuits Standards Division. The move, according to a statement issued by the Bureau in March, is designed to increase the Laboratory’s ability to meet the space‐age needs of the electronics industry. The Radio Standards Laboratory, under the direction of J. M. Richardson, is responsible for providing “the central basis for the complete, consistent, uniform, and accurate measurement of physical quantities pertaining to radio science, and assurance of international coordination of such measurements”.

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