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Allen Varley Astin (June 12, 1904 – January 28, 1984) was an American physicist who served as director of the United States National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology) from 1951 until 1969. During the Second World War he worked on the proximity fuse.
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24 de oct. de 2010 · Allen V. Astin: A Turning Point for the National Bureau of Standards | NIST. Allen Astin (June 12, 1904 – January 28, 1984) was director of NIST from 1951 until 1969. Credit: NIST. by Jim Schooley, SAA History Committee. Political pressure is the bane of objective scientific work in any setting university, industry, or government.
31 de jul. de 2018 · Astin gave that speech during the time he had been forced to resign. And he spoke poetically about “the romance of precision measurement” in words that still ring true today about NIST. Since 1984, NIST annually bestows the Allen V. Astin Prize for excellence in metrology.
8 de dic. de 2009 · The Allen V. Astin Measurement Science Award, first presented in 1984, is granted for outstanding achievement in the advancement of measurement science or in the delivery of measurement services.
Allen V. Astin. 1904–1984. A Biographical Memoir by Elio Passaglia, with a summary of Astin’s term as NAS Home Secretary by Daniel Barbiero. ©2018 National Academy of Sciences. Any opinions expressed in this memoir are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Academy of Sciences. ALLEN VARLEY A S T I N.
8 de feb. de 1984 · Allen V. Astin, who for 17 years directed the National Bureau of Standards and became the central figure in a controversy over the effectiveness of a battery additive, died Saturday in...
Allen V. Astin. June 12, 1904 - January 17, 1984. Scientific Discipline: Applied Physical Sciences. Membership Type: Member (elected 1960) Allen V. Astin was the director of the National Bureau of Standards (NBS)—now the National Institute of Science and Technology—for seventeen years.
