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Piecing Together the Profiles of Two NIST Chemists Taken Too Soon
                        February 16, 2022On April 13, 1975, in the community of Wheaton, Maryland, a lone shooter allegedly targeting Black people wounded five and took the lives of two others over the
  My First Semiconductor Standards Were a Bust ... or Were They?
                        January 12, 2022Silicon is the most important semiconductor in the world. It forms the chips that are used for memory and processors in high-end computers, everyday consumer
  That’s a Wrap: Selects From the NIST Invent Calendar
                        January 5, 2022We have a gift for you, packaged up in December 2021 and now ready to experience in full. Each day in December, the NIST Invent Calendar revealed innovations
  Reconstructing the Fires That Brought Down WTC 1, 2 and 7
                        September 8, 2021Everyone has a story about where they were when they heard about the disaster universally called “9/11.” Mine begins in Ottawa, Canada. As chance would have it
  Inside the Towers on 9/11: My Story of Investigating the WTC Evacuation
                        September 3, 2021The kickoff meeting On Nov. 1, 2002, in a small conference room on the Gaithersburg, Maryland, campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
  Reflections on Assisting With the 9/11 World Trade Center DNA Identifications
                        September 1, 2021On Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, I walked to work from my home in Olde Towne Gaithersburg, Maryland, and arrived at my office shortly before 9 a.m. I had just
  Analyzing the Aftermath of the Twin Towers Aircraft Impacts
                        August 27, 2021I consider myself lucky to have been able to perform contract engineering research and consulting for my entire career. The work environment has been somewhere
  Putting Together the Big Picture for the World Trade Center Disaster Investigation
                        August 25, 2021Imagine assembling a jigsaw puzzle of more than 14,000 pieces without an image on the box showing what the final picture will look like. Imagine that important
  How 9/11 Changed Me and First Responder Communications
                        August 20, 2021If you remember Sept. 11, 2001, that day is most likely imprinted on your mind like no other day. You remember what you were doing and who you were with. You
  20 Years Later: NIST's World Trade Center Investigation and Its Legacy
                        August 18, 2021The collapse of the World Trade Center (WTC) buildings following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was one of the worst-ever building disasters in

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