This crossword puzzle is based on the contents of NIST at 100: Foundations for Progress, a 56-page, illustrated booklet of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's major accomplishments of the past 100 years and their impact on industry, science and technology, the nation's economy, and the public. The booklet which is reproduced on this web site summarizes dominant themes of NIST's work during various time periods. After reading the document, you should be able to complete this crossword puzzle. Good luck!

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1 RDF
9 _____may have helped sink the Titanic
10 "godfather" of DNA diagnostics
12 NIST received an Emmy for _____
15 Current NIST director
16 Studied the "Physics of Baseball"
18 Manages Baldrige National Quality Award
19 He and Einstein predicted new state of matter created by JILA in 1995
20 First home for NIST
22 Discovered radium
24 NIST prepared brake fluid and seat belt specifications used in this industry
25 NIST's Nobel Prize winner
26 First fully automated guided missile
27 NIST Director 1923-1932
28 NIST researchers worked on the project that developed this bomb
32 SRM
38 NIST parent agency
40 Developed the first "reading machine"
41 NIST Center for Neutron Research
42 A very cool field of research

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1 NIST built this device to increased the range and quantity of available weather data
2 NIST made prototype for this dentist's tool
3 Writer of NIST at 100 - Foundations for Progress
4 NIST helped this agency resolve extent of chemical contamination of Love Canal
5 NIST was originally part of _____ Dept.
6 Data Encryption Standard
7 NIST OU that helps small manufacturers
8 NIST's National Medal of Science winner
11 ____ clocks help synchronize LA's traffic lights
12 Center for Advanced Research and Biotechnology
13 NIST computer program for statistical & numerical analysis
14 NIST developed standards for these couplings after 1904 tragedy in Baltimore
17 1901 NIST director
21 This government agency was formed at the beginning of the "Space Age"
23 Delivered dedication address at Boulder campus
29 Standards Eastern Automatic Computer
30 NIST made mercury ____ available to science and industry as an ultimate standard of length in 1951
31 Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics
32 ____ not speed of curve ball determines its break
33 NIST director 1975-1989
34 Developed by NIST for Bureau of Census
35 Radio Direction Finder
36 Bill Phillips uses these to cool and trap atoms
37 Synchotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility
39 NIST radio station call letters

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Date created: 12/14/00
Last updated: 12/20/00
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