Reminiscences of Allen V. Astin 1967
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- Name
- Astin, Allen Varley, 1904-1984 (Interviewee)
- Hopper, Paul (Interviewer)
- Title
- Reminiscences of Allen V. Astin 1967
- Abstract
- National Bureau of Standards, 1932-67; recollections of Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks; Kelly Committee; moving of Bureau to Gaithersburg, Maryland; change to metric system
- Collection Name
- Eisenhower administration project
- Subjects
- Physicists; Metric system--Law and legislation; Standardization; Weights and measures; Astin, Allen Varley, 1904-1984; Weeks, Sinclair; United States. National Bureau of Standards
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1967
- Physical Description
- 57 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Physicist
- Note
- Interviewed by Paul Hopper on July 21, 1967
- Note (Provenance)
- Allen V. Astin, Gift 1968
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 13749845
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-ehfe-jb52
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.