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

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National Physical Laboratory

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

Today, the driver is data science, says Richard Brown, a metrologist at the UK National Physical Laboratory in Teddington.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 23, 2022

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

In particular, it gave to the new science the highly skilled services of the National Physical Laboratory, which organized at Teddington a new department, with elaborate plant, for the investigation of aeronautical questions.

From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh

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