Chris Kuyatt, Acting Executive Director for the NIST Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology, passed away on Saturday, September 12 after a brief battle with cancer. Dr. Kuyatt joined the National Bureau of Standards in 1960 as a physicist in the Electron Physics section. In 1978, Dr. Kuyatt became Chief of the newly-formed NIST Radiation Physics Division. From 1979-1991, he held the position of Director, Center for Radiation Research.
EMC Society members will remember Chris for his contributions to EMC measurement uncertainty, and his work as one of the authors of NIST Technical Note 1297, “Guidelines for Evaluating and Expressing the Uncertainty of NIST Measurement Results” in particular.