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Allen V. Astin. 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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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.
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 Bethesda ...
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. He ultimately served in that role until 1969, making him the second ...
Allen V. Astin was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1904 and was educated at the University of Utah (B.S., Physics) and New York University (M.S. and Ph.D., Physics). He also has been awarded honorary doctorates by Lehigh, George Washington, and New York Universities. Dr. Astin was Director of the National Bureau of Standards for 17 years, and ...
Allen Varley Astin was an American physicist who served as director of the United States National Bureau of Standards from 1951 until 1969. During the Second World War he worked on the proximity fuse. He was an advocate for introduction of metric weights and measures to the United States. He was an elected member to the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ...
5 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.
