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A Century of Excellence in Measurements, Standards, and Technology

A Century of Excellence in Measurements, Standards, and Technology

Av David R. Lide, 2018.

Established by Congress in 1901, the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), now the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has a long and distinguished history as the custodian and disseminator of the United States' standards of physical measurement. Having reached its centennial anniversary, the NBS/NIST reflects on and celebrates its first century with this book describing some of its seminal contributions to science and technology. Within these pages are 102 vignettes that describe some of the Institute's classic publications. Each vignette relates the context in which the publication appeared, its impact on science, technology, and the general public, and brief details about the lives and work of the authors.

The groundbreaking works depicted include:

  • A breakthrough paper on laser-cooling of atoms below the Doppler limit, which led to the award of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics to William D. Phillips
  • The official report on the development of the radio proximity fuse, one of the most important new weapons of World War II
  • The 1932 paper reporting the discovery of deuterium in experiments that led to Harold Urey's1934 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
  • A review of the development of the SEAC, the first digital computer to employ stored programs and the first to process images in digital form
  • The first paper demonstrating that parity is not conserved in nuclear physics, a result that shattered a fundamental concept of theoretical physics and led to a Nobel Prize for T. D. Lee and C. Y. Yang
  • "Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Dilute Atomic Vapor," a 1995 paper that has already opened vast new areas of research
  • A landmark contribution to the field of protein crystallography by Wlodawer and coworkers on the use of joint x-ray and neutron diffraction to determine the structure of proteins

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    Produktinformasjon
    Format
    Innbundet
    Utgivelsesår
    2018
    Første salgsdato
    16.04.2018
    Forlag
    CRC Press
    Språk
    Engelsk
    Antall sider
    396
    Høyde
    280 mm
    Bredde
    210 mm
    Vekt
    890 g
    ISBN
    9781315890296
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