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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. During the Second World War he worked on the proximity fuse.
Jul 31, 2018 · To this day, the story of NBS Director Allen Astin and his example of integrity is told to all new employees as part of their orientation to NIST. We also share the speech that Allen Astin gave at the meeting of the American Physical Society in May of 1953, an organization that stood by him and NBS.
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.
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.
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,...
Allen V. Astin. 1904–1984. A Biographical Memoir by Elio Passaglia, with a summary of Astin’s term as NAS Home Secretary by Daniel Barbiero. ©2018 National Academy of Sciences. Any opinions expressed in this memoir are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Academy of Sciences.
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.
