- Author
- Schooley, J. F.
- Title
- Responding to National Needs. The National Bureau of Standards Becomes the National Institute of Standards and Technology 1969-1993.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- NIST Special Publication 955; NIST SP 955, November 2000,
- Distribution
- AVAILABLE FROM Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20401-0003. Telephone: 202-512-1800. Website: http://www.gpo.gov
- Book or Conf
- Responding to National Needs. The National Bureau of Standards Becomes the National Institute of Standards and Technology 1969-1993, 1032 p., 2000
- Keywords
- research facilities | history
- Identifiers
- National Bureau of Standards (NBS); National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); bright propsects for NBS (August 1969-May 1972); nation in trouble: an agency in change (May 1972-June 1975); durable director (July 1975-Marcy 1989); National Bureau of Standards becomes the National Institute of Standards and Technology: Public Law 100-418, August 23, 1988; metrology makes room for industrial productivity (February 1990-April 1993); history
- Abstract
- This book is a history of the National Bureau of Standards (NBS)/National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for the period 1969 to 1993. It complements and extends two earlier histories (Measures for Progress, by Rexmond C. Cochrane, and A Unique Institution: The National Bureau of Standards, 1950-1969, by Elio Passaglia). The text is written in roughly chronical fashion. It briefly describes both administrative and technical activities affecting the agency, emphasizing the breadth and depth of scientific and engineering work done there, as well as the close and continuing relationships between NBS/NIST and other organizations in the U.S. technical sector. Running through the text is evidence of the continual drift towards more direct assistance to American industry that culminated in the change inname and charter of NBS to NIST. The transition to NIST and its consequences are briefly discussed.