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National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The NIST is the source of many of the standards used in chemical and physical analyses in the United States and throughout the world. The standards prepared and distributed by the NIST are used to caUbrate measurement systems and to provide a central basis for uniformity and accuracy of measurement. At present, over 1200 Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) are available and are described by the NIST (15). Included are many steels, nonferrous alloys, high purity metals, primary standards for use in volumetric analysis, microchemical standards, clinical laboratory standards, biological material certified for trace elements, environmental standards, trace element standards, ion-activity standards (for pH and ion-selective electrodes), freezing and melting point standards, colorimetry standards, optical standards, radioactivity standards, particle-size standards, and density standards. Certificates are issued with the standard reference materials showing values for the parameters that have been determined. 

In the TROPHY study, treated patients received the antihypertensive drug candesartan. But success can be achieved by lifestyle changes alone, as proved by a project funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of Health. Lifestyle changes that protected the subjects in that study from progressing from prehypertension to hypertension included weight loss, physical activity,... 

At the National Institute of Chemieal Physies and Biophysics (NICPB), Laboratory of Chemical Physics the research activities range from studying fundamental aspects to applications. Strong emphasis is given to the deployment of modem physical methods in chemistry and biochemistry, which include principles of mass-spectroscopy and ion-cyclotron resonance environmental analyses and theoretical and experimental particle physics. 

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) database at http // 129.43.27.140/ncidb2/ contains over 250000 entries, which are searchable by structure, formula, CAS registry number or name. The results are analysed in terms of physical molecular descriptors (such as log P) and predicted biological activities against around 100 biological activities. 

During the years I knew him, he was a very busy man. His administrative responsibilities were substantial, not only as Head of the Physics Department but also as an Associate Director of Research with broader concerns. He served the National Research Council as an active member of its Committee on Catalysis and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics as a prominent member of its subcommittee on Lubrication, Friction and Wear. Those were heavy responsibilities during the years of World War II. He was a member of the Advisory Council of the American Institute of Physics and was an Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Physics. He was active also on the Advisory Committee of the American Petroleum Institute s Research Project 44, which was a very active one during the war. Needless to say, he travelled a lot. In his spare time he led an active personal life. He lived on a small ranch in the countryside to the east of San Francisco Bay there he bred and rode horses he was also a skier and had a lively interest in photography and other visual arts. His wife was an accomplished sculptress and they had many friends in the world of the arts. 

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