William Clyde Martin Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetWilliam Clyde Martin Jr.
American physicist
Date of Birth: 27-Nov-1929
Place of Birth: Cullman, Alabama, United States
Date of Death: 15-Sep-2013
Profession: physicist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About William Clyde Martin Jr.
- William Clyde Martin Jr.
- (November 27, 1929 – September 15, 2013) was an American physicist.
- After receiving his Ph.D.
- degree from Princeton University in 1956, he joined the staff of the National Bureau of Standards (NBS: now NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology), where he was employed until his retirement in 1998.
- As Chief of the NBS Atomic Spectroscopy Section (and its successor organizations) from 1962 to 1998, he led the development of its reference data resources on the spectra of rare-earth elements, substantially increased its coverage of highly excited and ionized species, and pioneered the publication of NIST Standard Reference Data on the internet.
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