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In 1901, in response to a bill proposed by Congressman James H. Southard (R, Ohio), the National Bureau of Standards was founded with the mandate to provide standard weights and measures, and to serve as the national physical laboratory for the United States. Southard had previously sponsored a bill for metric conversion of the United States.
8th NBS / 1st NIST Ernest Ambler: 1975–1989 Ambler served as acting director from 1975 to 1977. He was first appointed as director of NBS and continued as director of NIST following the agency's reorganization in 1988. 2nd John W. Lyons 1990–1993 3rd Arati Prabhakar: 1993–1997 4th Raymond G. Kammer 1997–2000 acting Karen Brown 2000–2001
Ernest Ambler (November 20, 1923 – February 17, 2017 [1]) was a British-American physicist who served as the Acting Under Secretary for Technology in the Department of Commerce (1988–89), as director of the United States' National Bureau of Standards (NBS, 1975–89), and as the first director of the United States' National Institute of Standards and Technology 1988–89.
It was first established in the 1930s by a joint effort of the Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC), made up of delegates from various American trade organizations, and the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), a US government agency. As suggested in 1932 by the first chairman of the ISCC, the system's goal is to be "a means of designating colors ...
The National Bureau of Standards (NBS) began researching electric batteries in 1917 as part of the war effort. In its annual report for 1918, the bureau announced: "The need of the development of specifications and methods of test for electric batteries has long been recognized; but facilities have not been available to undertake this work.
Abramowitz and Stegun (AS) is the informal name of a 1964 mathematical reference work edited by Milton Abramowitz and Irene Stegun of the United States National Bureau of Standards (NBS), now the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
The Harry Diamond Laboratories (HDL) was a research facility under the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) and later the U.S. Army.It conducted research and development in electronic components and devices and was at one point the largest electronics research and development laboratory in the U.S. Army. HDL also acted as the Army’s lead laboratory in nuclear survivability studies and operated ...
In the 1970s, the American National Bureau of Standards (NBS), which was later renamed to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), defined a set of convenient numbers when it was developing procedures for metrication in the United States. An NBS technical note describes that system of convenient metric values as the 1-2-5 ...