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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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In 1925, the year Astin arrived at NYU, E. Huckel, using the theory that he and P. Debye had developed two years earlier, had published a theory of the dielectric constant of electrolytes. Exper-imental results were, however, widely diferent from his theoretical predictions.
Oct 24, 2010 · As the fairness and accuracy of the NBS testing programs were called into question in a very public way by the U.S. Congress, President Harry Truman appointed Allen Astin to the position of Acting Director of the Bureau. During May, 1952, Astin was confirmed as NBS Director.
Feb 8, 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...
At an APS meeting on May 1, 1953, Allen Astin, physicist and director of the National Bureau of Standards — today the National Institute of Standards and Technology — took the stage. Before an audience of some 500 fellow physicists, he delivered a powerful speech about the bureau’s core values.
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.
Jul 31, 2018 · Allen Astin joined NIST, which was known as the National Bureau of Standards, in 1930 as a young Ph.D. physicist upon completing his postdoctoral research at Johns Hopkins University. In 1951, he would become NIST’s acting director, and was confirmed as director in May 1952.
