John
Rumble
International Scientific Program Committee
Co-chair
John
R. Rumble, Jr. is currently the Chief of the Measurement Services Division
at the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST).
He received a Ph.D.
(1976) in chemical physics from Indiana University. Prior to joining NIST
in 1980, he was at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics in
Boulder, Colorado, and the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna,
Austria. He has also worked as a chemist in industry.
In 1993-1994, he was
a Department of Commerce Fellow working in the Office of Science and Technology
Policy in the Executive Office of the President.
John has published
extensively in atomic and molecular physics and scientific informatics,
including several books. He has been active in developing scientific database
standards, including an international standard for industrial data exchange.
He is a Fellow of
the American Society for Testing and Materials, a Fellow of ASM International,
a member of the Russian Federation Academy of Metrology, a Fellow of the
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, and recipient of the
U.S. Department of Commerce Silver Medal. In 1998, John was elected President
of the Committee on Data (CODATA) of the International Council of Scientific
Unions.
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