Invited Session: History of Metrology and Today's Frontiers of Measurement

Presentations

• Dreams of a Final System: Origins of the Quest for an Absolute Standard

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 1, 2012, 2:30 PM – March 1, 2012, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Robert Crease

    • Stony Brook University

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• Beller Lectureship: From Artefacts to Atoms: The Origins and Early Years of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM)

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 1, 2012, 3:06 PM – March 1, 2012, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Terry Quinn

    • Retired

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• Measurement of the gravitational quantities g and G: How ideas for precision measurement experiments come about

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 1, 2012, 3:42 PM – March 1, 2012, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • James Faller

    • JILA (CU and NIST), University of Colorado, and University of Glasgow

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• The Odyssey of the Frequency Measurements of Visible Light at NBS/NIST

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 1, 2012, 4:18 PM – March 1, 2012, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Howard Layer

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology

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• Evolving Planck Constant Measurements into the SI Kilogram Standard

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 1, 2012, 4:54 PM – March 1, 2012, 5:30 PM

  Authors

  • Richard Steiner

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology

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