Patrick Abbott was born and reared in Pittsburgh, PA. He received the B.S. degree in Physics from Indiana Universiy of Pennsylvania in 1985 and the M.S.degree in Physics from The Pennsylvania State University in 1990. He has been a member of the Pressure and Vacuum Group at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD since 1992, where he is responsible for maintaining vacuum standards below 10-1 Pa and flow standards below 10-6 mol/s.
|