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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

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

From Science Magazine • Jun. 5, 2023

Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory in England recorded the shortest day ever on June 29 and another shortened day on July 26, Popular Mechanics reported.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 3, 2022

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

The results obtained by research at the National Physical Laboratory, and by experiment at the factory, furthered the science of aviation, and were open to all.

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