NIST physicist, keeper of the secret number
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Held the only copy of the unscrambling key for a decade
Stephan Schlamminger spent a decade measuring gravity's most stubborn constant without seeing his own answer. A colleague scrambled the data and sealed the key in an envelope, guarding against bias. When Schlamminger finally opened it in July 2024, his result disagreed with the leading value from France.
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