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From Artefacts to Atoms: The Bipm and the Search for Ultimate Measurement Standards

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From Artefacts to Atoms: The Bipm and the Search for Ultimate Measurement Standards - Quinn, Terry
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This is the story of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures--from its origins in the 1860s until today. It highlightes the role of key individuals in the development of the institution and the path from artifact standards of the metre and the kilogram to units based on the fundamental constants of physics.

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From Artefacts to Atoms: The Bipm and the Search for Ultimate Measurement Standards 2011, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780195307863

Hardcover