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Meet NIST’s pandemic poet and other characters from 1918, quasicrystal was created by nuclear bomb

21 May 2021 Hamish Johnston
NIST photographs
A measure of time: NIST employees photographed in 1918. (Courtesy: NIST Digital Archives)
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology has been around for over a century and in 1918

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