APS March Meeting 2012
Volume 57, Number 1
Monday–Friday, February 27–March 2 2012;
Boston, Massachusetts
Session Index
Session X2: Invited Session: History of Metrology and Today's Frontiers of Measurement
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Sponsoring Units: FHP
Chair: Richard Davis, BIPM
Room: 204AB
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
2:30PM - 3:06PM
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X2.00001: Dreams of a Final System: Origins of the Quest for an Absolute Standard
Invited Speaker:
Robert Crease
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
3:06PM - 3:42PM
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X2.00002: Beller Lectureship: From Artefacts to Atoms: The Origins and Early Years of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM)
Invited Speaker:
Terry Quinn
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
3:42PM - 4:18PM
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X2.00003: Measurement of the gravitational quantities g and G: How ideas for precision measurement experiments come about
Invited Speaker:
James Faller
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
4:18PM - 4:54PM
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X2.00004: The Odyssey of the Frequency Measurements of Visible Light at NBS/NIST
Invited Speaker:
Howard Layer
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
4:54PM - 5:30PM
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X2.00005: Evolving Planck Constant Measurements into the SI Kilogram Standard
Invited Speaker:
Richard Steiner
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