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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.
31 de jul. de 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.
In 1925, the year Astin arrived at NYU, E. Huckel, using the theory that he and P. Debye had developed two years earlier, had published a theory of the dielectric constant of electrolytes. Exper-imental results were, however, widely diferent from his theoretical predictions.
24 de oct. de 2010 · Allen Astin was the director of NIST (then NBS) from 1951 to 1969. He faced a political pressure to test a battery additive called AD-X2, which he refused to do, and was fired by the new administration in 1953.
5 de ago. de 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.
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.
8 de feb. de 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,...
