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From Artefacts to Atoms - The BIPM and the Search for Ultimate Measurement Standards (Hardcover, New)
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From Artefacts to Atoms - The BIPM and the Search for Ultimate Measurement Standards (Hardcover, New)
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The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) is
currently implementing the greatest change ever in the world's
system of weights and measures -- it is redefining the kilogram,
the final artefact standard, and reorganizing the system of
international units. This book tells the inside story of what led
to these changes, from the events surrounding the founding of the
BIPM in 1875 -- a landmark in the history of international
cooperation -- to the present. It traces not only the evolution of
the science, but also the story of the key individuals and events.
The BIPM was the first international scientific laboratory. Founded
in 1875 by the Metre Convention, its original tasks were to
conserve the new international standards of the metre and the
kilogram, to carry out calibrations for Member States and undertake
research to advance measurement science. The book is based on the
substantial archive of the BIPM which, from the very beginning,
recounts the many discussions and arguments first as to whether and
how such an institute should be created and in due course, how over
the next one hundred and thirty years it should develop. Despite
many national and personal rivalries, the institute actually
created was admirably suited to its declared tasks. In the years
and decades that followed, the scientific work of the small group
of men who made up its first staff was of a very high order. One of
the early Directors received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1920
for his discovery of invar. The international governing Board of
the institute, the International Committee of Weights and Measures,
has guided the institute from one charged with the conservation of
the prototype artefacts to one now at the centre of world metrology
and preparing for the redefinition of the last remaining artifact,
the kilogram, in terms of a fixed value for one of the fundamental
constants of physics, the Planck constant
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