National Physical Laboratory

Peter Whibberley, a physicist at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, south-west London, told the science journal Nature that, despite 10 years of debate, "there is no convincing evidence that anything serious would happen if you made a mistake introducing a leap second into a system".

Time running out for 'leap second' that has kept us in step with our slowing planet 2012

There was that team-building day at the National Physical Laboratory, the strategy meeting at Fulham FC's Craven Cottage, the planning meeting at the Commonwealth Club, and the £7,000 spent discussing climate change surrounded by the flora and fauna of the London Wetlands Centre.

Hugh Muir's diary 2012

One scientist from the U.K.'s National Physical Laboratory rose to remind the assembled about the risks of relying on a physical object like Le Grand K to define a measurement.

The Fate of the Kilo Weighs Heavily on the Minds of Metrologists Jeanne Whalen 2011

It's not always so easy: Once, Schofield contacted the National Physical Laboratory in London looking for a paint rumored to be 20 times blacker than the next blackest shade.

Little London Prop Shop Turns Ideas Into Art Katie Kitamura 2009

Over in Britain, Donald Watts Davies of the National Physical Laboratory had been playing with a very similar idea, which he decided to call packet switching.

The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009

This thing is one-fifth the width of a human hair made from two tiny beads and it's an actual three-dimensional object it comes from the National Physical Laboratory, getting a lot of traffic on line.

CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2009 2009

And what we're seeing here comes from National Physical Laboratory.

CNN Transcript Dec 17, 2009 2009

In 1945 Turing joined the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in London, his brief to design and develop an electronic stored-program digital computer for scientific work.

The Modern History of Computing Copeland, B. Jack 2006

National Physical Laboratory, U.K., 17 March 1986.

Where Wizards Stay Up Late Katie Hafner 2001

By this time Donald Davies had finally been given the go-ahead and some funding to do just that at the National Physical Laboratory in London, using short lines, each hundreds of yards at most.

Where Wizards Stay Up Late Katie Hafner 2001