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    The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is the national measurement standards laboratory of the United Kingdom. It sets and maintains physical standards...
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  • Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title National Physical Laboratory. If an internal link...
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    The CSIR- National Physical Laboratory of India, situated in New Delhi, is the measurement standards laboratory of India. It maintains standards of SI...
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  • industrial competitiveness. NIST's activities are organized into physical science laboratory programs that include nanoscale science and technology, engineering...
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  • responsibilities, it is in charge of setting Israel Standard Time. National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom) "Bright ideas". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. 2008-10-01...
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  • site, and is based on time standards maintained by the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington. The service is provided by Babcock International...
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    Craig Barrett (chief executive) (category Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom))
    1974. Barrett was NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Physical Laboratory in the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1965. Craig and his wife Barbara gave...
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    but a smaller version, the Pilot ACE, was constructed at the National Physical Laboratory and became operational in 1950. A larger implementation of the...
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  • Richard Q. Twiss (category Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom))
    interferometer. Twiss decided to pursue the Michelson alternative at the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington in the UK. John Davis worked with him for a short...
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  • James Lighthill (category Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom))
    Lighthill specialised in fluid dynamics, and worked at the National Physical Laboratory at Trinity. Between 1946 and 1959 he was Beyer Professor of Applied...
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    John Pople (category Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom))
    1958, he moved to the National Physical Laboratory, near London as head of the new basics physics division. He moved to the United States of America in...
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  • Stephen Butterworth (category Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom))
    Technology. He subsequently worked for several years at the National Physical Laboratory, where he did theoretical and experimental work for the determination...
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  • Louis Essen (category Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom))
    studied at University College Nottingham. He started work at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) the following year, under D. W. Dye, investigating the...
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    Olga Taussky-Todd (category Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom))
    vibrations of airplanes during World War II, at the National Physical Laboratory in the United Kingdom. During this time she wrote several articles that...
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    Charles Galton Darwin (category Directors of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom))
    1962) was an English physicist who served as director of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) during the Second World War. He was a son of the mathematician...
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  • Richard Glazebrook (category Directors of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom))
    June 1899, however, he left to become first Director of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington. During the First World War, he chaired the...
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  • Bryan Thwaites (category Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom))
    appointment, on graduation, was as a Science Officer at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), Teddington (1944–1947). He then moved to the Department...
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    Water rocket (category National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom))
    Taiki, Hokkaido, Japan. The previous record holder was National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom) with a water rocket measuring 3.40 metres (11.2 ft)...
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  • John Pethica (category Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom))
    Trinity College, Dublin, Chief Scientific Advisor at the UK's National Physical Laboratory, and a visiting professor at Oxford University. Pethica is most...
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    David Grant (engineer) (category Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom))
    non-executive director of Renishaw plc and of IQE, and chair of the National Physical Laboratory. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge...
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  • Henry Tizard (category Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom))
    Winston Churchill. In 1909, he became a researcher in the Davy–Faraday Laboratory of the Royal Institution, working on colour change indicators. In 1911...
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  • Ronald Bullough (category Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom))
    Ronald Bullough FRS (6 April 1931 – 20 November 2020) was a British materials scientist. He made leading contributions in the field of irradiated solids...
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    Michael J. C. Gordon (category Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom))
    to mathematics. During his studies, in 1969 he worked at the National Physical Laboratory in London during the summer, gaining his first exposure to computers...
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    Edward Victor Appleton (category Directors of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom))
    became assistant demonstrator in experimental physics at the Cavendish Laboratory in 1920. In 1922 he was initiated into Freemasonry. He was professor of...
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  • Norman Routledge (category Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom))
    went on to the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), Teddington. These were placements to fulfil the requirements for his compulsory national service. At the...
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    Harry Huskey (category Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom))
    obituary in The New York Times. He visited the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the United Kingdom for a year and worked on the Pilot ACE computer...
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  • John R. Womersley (category Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom))
    the first superintendent of the Mathematics Division of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). In addition to being responsible for statistical quality...
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    RMS Alcantara (1926) (category National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom))
    drove her twin propeller shafts by single reduction gearing. The National Physical Laboratory helped the shipyard to design new aerofoil-section manganese...
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  • Christopher Evans (computer scientist) (category Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom))
    Retinal Image"), he went to the Division of Computer Science, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, in 1964, where he remained until his death from...
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    Alan Turing (category Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom))
    Battle of the Atlantic. After the war, Turing worked at the National Physical Laboratory, where he designed the Automatic Computing Engine, one of the...
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