Through Measurement to Knowledge: The Inaugural Lecture of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1882)

This paper is a contribution to the NIST Centennial 2001. It presents the first complete English translation of the inaugural speech of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes on the occasion of his appointment as Professor at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands) in 1882. The speech is a snapshot of the scient...

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Autor principal: Laesecke, Arno
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: [Gaithersburg, MD] : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology 2002
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4861352/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27446730
http://dx.doi.org/10.6028/jres.107.021
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spelling pubmed-48613522016-07-21 Through Measurement to Knowledge: The Inaugural Lecture of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1882) Laesecke, Arno J Res Natl Inst Stand Technol Article This paper is a contribution to the NIST Centennial 2001. It presents the first complete English translation of the inaugural speech of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes on the occasion of his appointment as Professor at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands) in 1882. The speech is a snapshot of the scientific landscape of that time and lays out a vision. It advocates with enthusiasm the significance of quantitative measurements and the development of metrology standards. Although science and technology have advanced since then by orders of magnitude, a number of interesting parallels between then and now appear. [Gaithersburg, MD] : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology 2002 2002-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4861352/ /pubmed/27446730 http://dx.doi.org/10.6028/jres.107.021 Text en https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ The Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology is a publication of the U.S. Government. The papers are in the public domain and are not subject to copyright in the United States. Articles from J Res may contain photographs or illustrations copyrighted by other commercial organizations or individuals that may not be used without obtaining prior approval from the holder of the copyright.
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