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A focus of discoveries /
In 1887, the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) was originally founded as the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (PTR) in Berlin in order to promote basic research in physics. It subsequently developed into the largest research center worldwide as a place where scientists could concentra...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore :
World Scientific,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The foundation and the key role of Werner Siemens
- 2. Some memoranda at the beginning
- 3. The start under President Hermann von Helmholtz
- 4. The Institute as a model
- 5. The optical laboratory and the birth of quantum theory
- 6. The low-temperature laboratory and the discovery of the Meissner effect
- 7. The chemical laboratory and the discovery of new elements
- 8. The laboratory for radioactivity
- 9. The Imperial Institute and Albert Einstein
- 10. Counting and measuring
- quantum statistics and quantum standards
- 1. Fundamental constants
- the best information on nature available
- 12. The meter convention for the global consistency of measurements
- 13. The Presidents of the Institute until 1933
- 14. The Institute under the Nazi dictatorship and a new beginning.