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Smoot - Wikipedia Oliver R Smoot was selected by his Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity pledgemaster because he was deemed shortest—which made measuring the bridge the most labor-intensive—and he was the "most scientifically named "
Smoots: How a fraternity prank turned into a measurement Now retired and living in San Diego, Smoot took the time to talk to The Register about the prank that made him a unit of measurement and the lasting impact of standards Looking back, he recalled how fraternity leaders assigned him the task, and he and his friends carried it out the next day
Oliver R. Smoot - Wikipedia In 2011, American Heritage Dictionary admitted his decapitalized surname, smoot, meaning a distance of 5 feet 7 inches (1 70 m), as one of the 10,000 new words added to their fifth edition
George Smoot - Wikipedia Smoot was an artificial intelligence scientist for the GTA Foundation, whose business is storing genomic sequencing data and using it in scientific applications
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MIT to Recalibrate the Smoot | alum. mit. edu After consultation with MIT administration, and Smoot himself, the Institute formed the Smoot Measurement and Length Recalibration (SMaLR) Task Force earlier this year The smoot was created in October 1958 after seven MIT students calibrated the Mass Ave bridge using 5’7 Oliver Smoot '62
American Heritage Dictionary Entry: smoot Since then, the smoot marks have been assiduously maintained on the bridge, which measures 364 4 smoots, plus or minus one ear Interestingly, Smoot went on to become the chair of the American National Standards Institute and president of the International Organization for Standardization
Smoot | Units of Measurement Wiki | Fandom Template:Unit of length The smoot ( ˈsmuːt ) is a nonstandard unit of length created as part of an MIT fraternity prank It is named after Oliver R Smoot, a fraternity pledge to Lambda Chi Alpha, who in October 1958 lay on the Harvard Bridge (between Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts), and
Smoot Explained What is the Smoot? The smoot is a nonstandard, humorous unit of length created as part of an MIT fraternity pledge to Lambda Chi Alpha by Oliver R