Defining and Measuring Nature (Second Edition): The make of all things (IOP ebooks) - Hardcover

Williams, Jeffrey H

 
9780750331418: Defining and Measuring Nature (Second Edition): The make of all things (IOP ebooks)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0750331410 ISBN 13: 9780750331418
Verlag: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

In this significantly updated and extended edition of his popular book, Jeffrey Huw Williams outlines the history of the science of measurement, the origin of the world's measurement system - the Metric System - and the recent redefinition based on fundamental quantum properties.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Following a PhD in chemical physics from Cambridge University, Jeffrey worked as a research scientist in the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard and Illinois, and subsequently as a physicist at the Institute Laue-Langevin, France. Leaving research Jeffrey moved to the world of science publishing and the communication of science by becoming the European editor for the physical sciences for the AAAS's Science and subsequently, the Assistant Executive Secretary of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Most recently, 2003–2008, he was the head of publications at the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM), Sèvres. It was during these years at the BIPM that he became interested in and familiar with the origin of the Metric System, its subsequent evolution into the SI, and the coming transformation into the Quantum-SI. At the BIPM, he was the editor of their journal Metrologia. Jeffrey has written widely about science, technology, the impact of science on society and the individual for general-interest magazines such as New Scientist and for more specialized magazines (Chemistry in Britain, Physics Today, Chemical & Engineering News, Physics World and Chemistry and Industry). Jeffrey passed away in July 2021.

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Verlag
Institute of Physics Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0750331410
ISBN 13 
9780750331418
Einband
Tapa dura
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
186
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