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James M. Turner

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James Marshall Turner is an American physicist and retired government official. Over the course of his career, he served as Director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Office of International Affairs and as deputy director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Turner was also a founding member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Black Students' Union.

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