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National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physicist Michael Boss will receive the 2015 Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Award for Excellence in
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new method for accurately measuring a key process governing a wide