A Century of Excellence in Measurements, Standards, and Technology

* A breakthrough paper on laser-cooling of atoms below the Doppler limit, which led to the award of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics to William D. Phillips* The official report on the development of the radio proximity fuse, one of the most important new weapons of World War II* The 1932 paper reporting the discovery of deuterium in experiments that led to Harold Urey's1934 Nobel Prize for Chemistry* …Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Dilute Atomic Vapor,… a 1995 paper that has already opened vast new areas of research* A review of the development of the SEAC, the first digital computer to employ stored programs and the first to process images in digital form