ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the National Bureau of Standards’s Materials at Low Temperatures, relating the context in which the publication appeared, its impact on science, technology, and the general public, and brief details about the lives and work of the author. The book, Materials at Low Temperatures, consists of 14 chapters, each a combination of tutorial text and critical data analysis for 14 different properties of materials at cryogenic temperatures. It was written during the years 1980–1982 by the staff members of the former Cryogenics Division while the Division was being disbanded during a major reorganization, with the staff being distributed throughout three different Centers that have since evolved into three laboratories. These include Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory (EEEL), Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory (MSEL), and Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory (CSTL). The book has been used as a text in courses on cryogenic technology and as a reference by cryogenic engineers and low-temperature physicists throughout the world.
