
Time laboratory
NIST Time and Frequency Division
Boulder, Colorado, United States
NIST-F caesium fountain standards, optical lattice clocks and the WWVB time signal.
The US National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) built early atomic clocks from 1949 and continues fundamental research on timekeeping.
- Type
- Time laboratory
- Location
- Boulder, Colorado, United States
- Founded
- 1901 (NBS)
- Specialities
- Atomic and optical clocks · WWVB
- Official website
- www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division
Opening hours, admission and accessibility change; please check the official website before visiting.



