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National Physical Laboratory

British  

noun

  1.  NPL.  a UK establishment founded in 1900 at Teddington to carry out research in physics and monitor standards of measurement

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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And it’s an easy lift to use systems that are already in place, pointed out James Allerton, an air quality scientist at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory.

From Seattle Times Jun. 5, 2023

The team extracted and sequenced DNA from a monitor at the National Physical Laboratory in suburban London.

From Science Magazine Jun. 5, 2023

The award is “richly deserved”, says Helen Margolis, an optical physicist at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, UK.

From Scientific American Sep. 9, 2021

By 1955, an atomic clock was accurate to one second every 300 years; in the 1980s Britain’s National Physical Laboratory made atomic clocks accurate within one second every 300,000 years.

From Washington Post Sep. 2, 2021

All the instruments were examined and tested at the National Physical Laboratory, and the thanks of the Committee are due to the Director and his staff, who gave most valuable advice and assistance.

From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth

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