title: From Artefacts to Atoms: The BIPM and the Search for Ultimate Measurement Standards
author: Terry Quinn
description: <br />Terry Quinn is an experimental physicist who has worked in a number of fields of measurements science: temperature, optical radiometry, mass and fundamental constants. From 1988 to 2003 he was Director of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, Sevres, France and was much involved in the organization of international metrology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London.<br />
zlib_text: MOST® Work 
   Measurement Systems
  
  MOST® Work 
   Measurement Systems
  Fourth Edition
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