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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. He was an advocate for introduction of metric ...
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Oct 24, 2010 · Allen Astin (June 12, 1904 – January 28, 1984) was director of NIST from 1951 until 1969. by Jim Schooley, SAA History Committee. Political pressure is the bane of objective scientific work in any setting university, industry, or government. During its first fifty years, the National Bureau of Standards was relatively free of it.
Jul 31, 2018 · A speech by former NIST director Allen V. Astin, who served from 1952 to 1969 and faced a challenge of political pressure and scandal over the AD-X2 battery additive. He exemplified NIST's core values of perseverance, integrity, inclusivity and excellence, and his sons share their personal perspectives on his life and legacy.
Feb 8, 1984 · Allen Varley Astin was born in Salt Lake City and graduated from the University of Utah. He earned his doctorate in physics at New York University in 1928 and in that year won a National Research ...
Aug 5, 2018 · This was recorded July 31st, 2018. In 1930, a young Ph.D. physicist named Allen V. Astin secured his first position at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), now known as NIST. By 1951, he had risen through the ranks to become the director of NBS. It was Astin’s leadership of the bureau through the tumultuous AD-X2 battery additive.
ALLEN ASTIN Margaret did graduate study in journalism and Astin finished his Ph.D. in 1928. He was then awarded a National Research Council Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, and the family moved to Baltimore, where in 1930, their first son, John Allen, was born. That same year, Astin’s postdoctoral appointment was coming to an end.
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. He was an advocate for introduction of metric ...
