National Physical Laboratory

noun

1. a UK establishment founded in 1900 at Teddington to carry out research in physics and monitor standards of measurement NPL

Example Sentences

And it’s an easy lift to use systems that are already in place, pointed out James Allerton, an air quality scientist at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory.

From Seattle Times

The team extracted and sequenced DNA from a monitor at the National Physical Laboratory in suburban London.

From Science Magazine

A physicist at the National Physical Laboratory in England, he helps oversee a 60-year-old effort by the U.K. government to monitor air quality by tracking heavy metals and other particles using hundreds of air samplers across the country.

From Science Magazine

This data, along with data from the Metropolitan Police, was fed into a review by the National Physical Laboratory last month which said there was a "substantial improvement" in accuracy - with a false match of one in 6,000 people who pass the camera.

From BBC

Today, the driver is data science, says Richard Brown, a metrologist at the UK National Physical Laboratory in Teddington.

From Scientific American