Naval Ordnance Laboratory

Projects

• The World War II artillery fuze.

• Nitinol, the shape changing nickel-titanium alloy well known to everyone. The NOL at the end of Nitinol refers to Naval Ordnance Laboratory.

• Hypervelocity wind tunnel testing of Space Shuttle models for NASA.

People

• John Bardeen, the only person to win two Nobel Prizes in Physics.
• John Vincent Atanasoff, inventor of the first electronic computer, Chief of the NOL Acoustics Division.
• William E. Caswell, physicist and victim of September 11, 2001.

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