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National Physical Laboratory, UK - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is the national measurement standards laboratory for the United Kingdom, based at Bushy Park in Teddington in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is the largest applied physics organisation in the UK, and has a role similar to that of NIST in the United States. NPL cooperates with professional networks such as those of the IEE to support scientists and engineers concerned with areas of work in which it has expertise. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Physical_Laboratory   (213 words)

United Devices, Inc. ™ - Company: Press Release NPL is the United Kingdom's national standards laboratory, an internationally respected and independent centre of excellence in research, development and knowledge transfer in measurement and materials science. NPL maintains the United Kingdom's primary measurement standards and is charged with the nation's innovation in physical measurement. The NPL carries out research in many areas of metrology — the science of measurement — including materials, acoustics, optical radiation and electrical analysis, as well as providing services to a wide range of clients from the biotechnology industry to the construction sector. www.ud.com /company/news/press/10082003.htm   (481 words)

National Physical Laboratory - Wikipedia Il National Physical Laboratory (NPL) è il laboratorio nazionale per le unità di misura per il Regno Unito. Oggi fornisce le risorse scientifiche al National Measurement System finanziato dal Department of Trade and Industry (Dipartimento del Commercio e dell'Industria). Per il 2005 è previsto il completamento di un nuovo, avanzatissimo laboratorio costruito con l'ausilio di capitali privati. it.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Physical_Laboratory   (168 words)

IDBS launches XLfit 4 with curve fitting models validated by The National Physical Laboratory The United Kingdom’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has worked with IDBS to test the numerical correctness of the curve fitting component of XLfit 4. As the UK's national standards laboratory, NPL underpins the national measurement system, ensuring consistency and traceability of measurements throughout the UK. NPL is a world-leading centre in the development and application of highly accurate measurement techniques. www.id-bs.com /news/02_02_2004a.asp   (624 words)

AIP International Catalog of Sources In 1898 a committee of inquiry under Lord Rayleigh recommended the establishment of a National Physical Laboratory under the control of the Royal Society. It was to be an institution "for standardizing and verifying instruments, for testing materials, and for the determination of physical constants." It was first established at Kew Observatory in 1900 and was formally opened in a new acommodation at Teddington in 1902. Records of the NPL relating to the maintenance of standards and research in physical science. www.aip.org /history/catalog/25193.html   (254 words)

Nanotechnology and nanoscience National Physical Laboratory NPL is uniquely placed to advise on what is possible and to develop the necessary standards if required. NPL in association with the Department of Trade and Industry is reviewing future metrology needs for commercialisation of nanotechnology. The current state of knowledge is such that some of the basic physics and chemistry are known but much less of the bioscience. www.nanotec.org.uk /evidence/80bNPL.htm   (768 words)

Institute of Physics - Media Relations The National Physical Laboratory (NPL), situated in Teddington Middlesex, is the UK's national standards laboratory for physical measurements. For more information on the art competition or on the National Physical Laboratory contact Hilary Lynch, tel 020 8943 6014, fax 020 8943 4995, e-mail hilary.lynch@npl.co.uk The Institute works in collaboration with national physical societies, plays an important role in transnational societies such as the European Physical Society and represents British and Irish physicists in international organisations. physics.iop.org /IOP/Press/PR4701.html   (423 words)

CESIUM ATOMIC CLOCKS Between 1953 and 1955, L. Essen and J.V.L. Parry of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington, England built a cesium atomic clock. Examples are the NIST-7 standard at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, CO and the atomic fountains at NIST, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany, the Paris Observatory, France, and USNO. Cesium clocks are of two general kinds: a "laboratory (or primary) standard" about as large as a railroad flatcar and a "commercial (or secondary) standard" about as large as a suitcase. tycho.usno.navy.mil /cesium.html   (1207 words)

National Physical Laboratory (AILU Member) Calibration of laser power and energy meters NAMAS accredited traceable to National Standards. NPL provides training and consultancy services as well as measurement services. www.ailu.org.uk /directory/nationalphysicallaboratory.htm   (32 words)

National Physical Laboratory As the UK’s national standards laboratory, NPL is a world-leading centre in the development of precise measurement techniques. NPL provides calibration, research and consultancy in all forms of laser and optical measurement. NPL has extablished facilities for calibrating most types of meter used to measure laser power and energy. www.ailu.org.uk /eulasnet/members/nationalphysicallaboratory.htm   (62 words)

Report of the committee appointed by the Treasury to consider the desirability of establishing a national physical laboratory Report of the committee appointed by the Treasury to consider the desirability of establishing a national physical laboratory - Part 2, page 2 (of 6) Report of the committee appointed by the Treasury to consider the desirability of establishing a national physical laboratory www.bopcris.ac.uk /img1833/ref3284_2_2_m.html   (62 words)

National Physical Laboratory The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is the government-owned national measurement institute, which has been privately managed and operated since 1995 by Serco. A team at CMS Cameron McKenna has advised the Department of Trade and Industry in relation to the re-tender of the management and operation of the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, Middlesex. NPL is a global leader in measurement science, providing national calibration services that underpin UK engineering, healthcare and environmental analysis. www.law-now.com /CS2000/internet/EN/co20ournews/co22archive/2004/nationalphysicallab.htm?section=magazinekey   (652 words)

NPL Acoustics: Acoustics Home Page NPL operates a UKAS accredited calibration laboratory and many of the acoustics measurement services are UKAS accredited. NPL, in collaboration with the Society for Underwater Technology (SUT), is holding a one-day seminar on the measurement of underwater noise radiated from machinery and platforms. If your company is involved with noise emission measurement, in particular the determination of sound power level, we would like to hear from you. www.npl.co.uk /acoustics   (392 words)

National Physical Laboratory (NPL) - Time, Frequency and Synchronization Solutions National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the United Kingdom’s national standards organization, maintains the nation’s standards for most physical measurements including time, length, mass, density and force. NPL is an internationally respected and independent center of excellence in research, development and knowledge transfer. NPL maintains time for the United Kingdom via a Symmetricom hydrogen maser clock and has traditionally distributed the time to the general public and businesses via radio signals as well as dial-in phone connections. www.npl.symmttm.com   (760 words)

UK National Physical Laboratories, Donald Davies Donald Davies and his colleagues at the UK National Physical Laboratory independently discovered the idea of packet switching, and later developed a smaller scale packet-switched version of the ARPANET. In 1965, while Donald Davies was Superintendent of the National Physical Lab (NPL) in Britain, he proposed development of a country wide packet communications network. It was replaced with an improved network called the Mark II in 1973, and remained in operation until 1986, but it never had the funding to develop on the scale of the ARPANET. www.livinginternet.com /i/ii_npl.htm   (276 words)

Data Communications at the National Physical Laboratory (1965-1975) This paper describes the data communications activity at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) during the period 1965-1975. Data Communications at the National Physical Laboratory (1965-1975) The key feature of the NPL work was the development of the principle of packet switching, which was first proposed in a data communications context by D. Davies of the NPL in 1965. csdl2.computer.org /persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/mags/an/&toc=comp/mags/an/1987/03/a3toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/MAHC.1987.10023   (983 words)

National Measurement Awards 2004 The National Measurement Awards are managed by NPL Management Ltd The awards comprise of 5 categories, and there were applications from manufacturing companies, engineering and R&D companies/departments, scientists and researchers from universities, institutes and measurement suppliers. www.national-measurement-awards.co.uk   (151 words)

Visual Problems of Colour, Vols 1 - 2. A Symposium held at the National Physical Laboratory on 23rd, 24th, 25th September 1957. - (NO AUTHOR) A Symposium held at the National Physical Laboratory on 23rd, 24th, 25th September 1957. antiqbook.co.uk /boox/plu/PAQ57452.shtml   (132 words)

Registration Thanks to the generosity of the Science Museum of London and of the National Physical Laboratory, who are providing facilities for ACE 2000, this is a 'nearly free' conference. I will require a ticket for the coach to the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, leaving on the morning of 19 May from outside the Conference hotels and returning in the evening (cost £10, to be included with this registration form) NB Attendance at the National Physical Laboratory on May 19 is limited to a total of 65 people. www.alanturing.net /turing_archive/conference/ACE/registration.html   (244 words)

PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway: Search/Browse Results The National Physical Laboratory is the United Kingdom’s national standards laboratory. This website is part of the MIDAS service produced by the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL). This is the homepage of the Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics (CENPA), University of Washington. www.psigate.ac.uk /roads/cgi-bin/psisearch.pl?term1=Np&limit=0&subject=All   (1671 words)

PhysicsWeb - Employment Centre - Job: physicist The National Physical Laboratory is carrying out R & D in the field of nanoelectrical metrology in collaboration with the Semiconductor Physics group in the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. The National Physical Laboratory is operated on behalf of the DTI by NPL Management Limited, Currently we have a vacancy for a physicist to be based mainly at the Cavendish Laboratory to develop and fabricate novel nanoelectrical devices. physicsweb.org /jobs/jobdetail/3786   (314 words)

Radiation protection in Norway The National Physical Control Laboratory is opened at the National Hospital, with a staff of three. The regulations for the National Physical Control Laboratory specify that the institute shall conduct independent scientific research in addition to its inspection functions. The name of the Control Laboratory is changed to the National Radiological-Physical Laboratory, now with a staff of five. www.nrpa.no /fpinternet/english/about_nrpa/history.htm   (377 words)

UK National Audit Office publications - Work in Progress: The redevelopment of the National Physical Laboratory In January 1998, the Department of Trade and Industry let a PFI contract worth an expected £116 million to a consortium including Laing Construction and Serco for the redevelopment of the National Physical Laboratory and the provision of ongoing site services for 25 years. UK National Audit Office publications - Work in Progress: The redevelopment of the National Physical Laboratory Work in Progress: The PFI Contract for the Redevelopment of the National Physical Laboratory www.nao.org.uk /publications/workinprogress/npl1.htm   (203 words)

National Measurement Awards announced: News from National Physical Laboratory The awards, managed by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) on behalf of DTI, recognise outstanding achievements in the field of measurement and testing. National Measurement Awards announced: News from National Physical Laboratory The 2004 National Measurement Award winners are: * Innovative Measurement award - Winner: Oxford University's Materials Department and Oxford nanoScience, the first team to build a three-dimensional atom probe, a device enabling researchers to see and characterize individual atoms. www.manufacturingtalk.com /news/nio/nio102.html   (443 words)

Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility This surprising result, recently published in the journal Physical Review Letters, may lead to new insights about how ordinary matter is constructed. Now a complex calculation by theoretical nuclear physicists at Jefferson Lab has revealed that a quark's spin may be altered by the surroundings of the proton or neutron in which it resides. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005 has been awarded for research in optics and lasers, including research with the single-wavelength predecessors to Jefferson Lab's Free-Electron Laser. www.jlab.org   (168 words)

Certification of Stage Micrometers Offered by SPI Supplies For a particular stage micrometer to be "certified", some number of individual measurements are made at a laboratory that has been accredited to do such metrology testing. In this case, the NPL is the top agency in the UK and they have accredited UKAS laboratories to do this same type of metrology testing. The certification costs to SPI are much higher when the testing is done at NPL, presumably because of their much higher overhead and infrastructure costs, therefore the difference in the pricing. www.2spi.com /catalog/ltmic/stage-micrometers-certified.html   (259 words)

National Physical Laboratory • Materials Learning and Teaching Resources • UK Centre for Materials Education The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is the UK's national standards laboratory. National Physical Laboratory • Materials Learning and Teaching Resources • UK Centre for Materials Education The main focus of the work in the NPL Materials Centre is associated with developing test methods and materials measurement. www.materials.ac.uk /resources/fullrecord.asp?resourceid=2377   (127 words)

Michigan State University Press Turing's Legacy David Yates The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) at Teddington in south-west London is one of the cradles of this revolution. David Yates worked at the National Physical Laboratory in senior positions, including as Head of the Information Systems group and Branch Head responsible for groups in protocol standards, data... This book outlines the contribution of NPL to modern computing developed from his plans, the fertile marriage of computers and communications in the 1960s in which the Laboratory again played a leading part, and much else. msupress.msu.edu /bookTemplate.php?bookID=582   (179 words)

The Physical Science Laboratory (PSL) The Physical Science Laboratory (PSL), an integral and important part of New Mexico State University since 1946, serves its customers, the university, and the community through the development of critical technologies and the support of southern New Mexico's economic growth. PSL is a laboratory of laboratories with headquarters in Las Cruces, NM, on the campus of New Mexico State University. PSL's key capabilities are grouped into four laboratories: Information Operations Laboratory ( www.psl.nmsu.edu   (264 words)

NIST Physics Laboratory home page Quantum Physics Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has won the Nobel Prize along with two other researchers. The Physics Laboratory is divided into six major divisions, described below. provides national leadership in fundamental research and measurement standards for all types of ionizing radiation. physics.nist.gov   (149 words)

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