Book ID: CBB001250513

From Artefacts to Atoms: The BIPM and the Search for Ultimate Measurement Standards (2011)

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Quinn, Terry J. (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: 408 pp.
Language: English

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Review Crease, Robert P. (2013) Review of "From Artefacts to Atoms: The BIPM and the Search for Ultimate Measurement Standards". Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (pp. 171-172). unapi

Review Westfall, Catherine (2014) Review of "From Artefacts to Atoms: The BIPM and the Search for Ultimate Measurement Standards". Physics in Perspective (pp. 140-141). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Johannes Sima
Jackson, Rebecca L.
Epstein, Jessica
Holmes, Tarquin
Brown, Nathan
Sartori, Sergio
Journals
Business History Review
Substantia: An International Journal of the History of Chemistry
Azimuth
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Publishers
Pavia University Press
New School University
Johns Hopkins University
Istanbul University
Concepts
Standards and standardization
Measurement
Metric system
Metrology
Astronomy
International System of Units (SI)
People
Blumbahs, Fricis
Watt, James
Tertemiz, Serafettin Tevfik
Sitterly, Charlotte M.
Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Ottoman Empire
Latvia
Turkey
Russia
Bulgaria
Institutions
Convention du mètre (1875)
Latvian Academy of Sciences
International Bureau of Weights and Measures
British Association for the Advancement of Science
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