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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.
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.
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.
Allen V. Astin was the director of the National Bureau of Standards (NBS)—now the National Institute of Science and Technology—for seventeen years. As director, he gained the organization international recognition as a leading global center for scientific and technical research.
June 12, 1904–January 17, 1984. Elected to the NAS, 1960. Interstate highway 270 leads northwest from Washington, DC, joins its parent interstate 70 some 40 miles from the city at Frederick, MD, and thence continues west across the continent until it loses its identity in central Utah.
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,...
Aug 5, 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.
Dr. Astin was Director of the National Bureau of Standards for 17 years, and retired on August 31, 1969, after 37 years of Government service; all at NBS. His tenure was marked by exceptional leadership of the Bureau during a critical period of its 69 year history.
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.
The Astin Case. On August 21st, one hundred and forty‐four stormy days after the forced resignation of Allen V. Astin as director of the National Bureau of Standards (see Physics Today, VI, 5, 20, May 1953), Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks issued the following press release:
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