Home › Authors › George Kimball Burgess George Kimball Burgess 3 books Biography American physicist, highly notable. Was the second Director of the (United States National) Bureau of Standards. Books by George Kimball Burgess Measurement of High Temperatur Measurement of High Temperatures 2011 Joint meeting American Institute of Metals and Bureau of Standards Committees on Non-ferrous Metals, September 5, 1913, at the Bureau of Standards 1913 On the Temperature of the Arc 1904