| Description |
1 online resource (x, 185 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 concentrate exclusively on their research subject, and served as a model for similar institutes established in other countries. Within a very short time, the PTR produced extremely important scientific results that cemented its international position at the top, such as Max Planck's radiation law and energy q |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Physics -- Germany -- Laboratories -- History
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SCIENCE -- Energy.
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SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- General.
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Luebbig, Heinz
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| LC no. |
2008276856 |
| ISBN |
9812790357 |
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9789812790354 |
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9789812790347 |
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9812790349 |
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1281938319 |
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9781281938312 |
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