Oliver Reed Smoot, Jr. was Chairman of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) from 2001 to 2002 and President of the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO) from 2003 to 2004. He received his Bachelor of Science from MIT and his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University. The American National Standards Institute or ANSI (pronounced an-see) is a nonprofit organization that oversees the development of standards for products, services, processes and systems in the United States. ... “ISO” redirects here. ... “ISO” redirects here. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Mapúa Institute of Technology (MIT, MapúaTech or simply Mapúa) is a private, non-sectarian, Filipino tertiary institute located in Intramuros, Manila. ... “J.D.” redirects here. ... Georgetown University is an elite private research university located in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., United States. ...

As a pledge of MIT's Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity in 1958, Smoot's height was used to measure the length of the Harvard Bridge. As he lay on the Harvard Bridge (that carries Massachusetts Avenue across the Charles River), markers were made at each distance between his head and feet. The bridge was determined to be 364.4 smoots (and one ear) in length, and the markers remain to this day. Lambda Chi Alpha (ΛΧΑ), headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, is one of the largest mens general fraternities in North America with more than 250,000 initiated members and chapters at more than 300 universities. ... The Harvard Bridge (also known locally as the MIT bridge or the Mass Ave bridge) is the longest bridge over the Charles River. ... The Harvard Bridge (also known locally as the MIT bridge or the Mass Ave bridge) is the longest bridge over the Charles River. ... The Harvard Bridge, looking towards Boston The smoot is a nonstandard unit of length created as part of an MIT fraternity prank. ...

Smoot gave a speech to the hearing to the House Science Committee's Subcommittee on Technology on March 20, 2000, entitled “The Role of Technical Standards in Today's Society and in the Future". is the 79th day of the year (80th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ...

His cousin^[1] George Smoot won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006. George Fitzgerald Smoot III (born February 20, 1945) is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics with John C. Mather for their discovery of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation. This work helped cement the big-bang theory of... Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995) accepting the Nobel Prize for his work on magnetohydrodynamics [1]. List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ...

Sources

• Biography by ANSI
• Speech for the House
• NPR Interview on December 7, 2005, on the occasion of his retirement.
• MIT tribute page - he was featured on MIT's daily-changing home page on December 19, 2005
• Tavernor, Robert (2007), Smoot's Ear: The Measure of Humanity, [1]

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