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Burgess Leads the Bureau of Standards in War to Peace
Dr. George Kimball Burgess, 55, head of the U S Bureau of Standards, directs 900 staff and a $3,000,000 yearly budget from a sunlit lab turned military beacon in WWI and beyond. He maps laboratories across Europe, unifies specs with international groups, and oversees gadgets from optical glass to air navigation instruments. The New Englander, MIT and Sorbonne trained, blends science with government service while staying restless and travel hungry.
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George Kimball Burgess
US Bureau of Standards
Ina
House of Mari
New England
Newton
Massachusetts
Burgess
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sorbonne
Paris
Pati
Germany
International Bureau of Weights and Measures
Suzanne Babut
Europe
University of Michigan
University of California
California
Bureau of Standards
Treasury Department
Department of Commerce and Labor and Cabinet
Washington
Metalweg
Hoover
Secretary of Commerce
Bureau
Wai ‘Sas
Dr. Burgess
United States
International Aircraft Standards Bureau
Canada
France
Maly
Great Britain
Government
Federal Specifications Board
National Research Council
Wilson
North American Patrol Board
National Advisory Committee
National Screw Thread Commission
Congress
U. S