History and progress on accurate measurements of the Planck constant

Reports on Progress in Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Steiner, Richard ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HISTORY; PHYSICS; QUANTUM THEORY; REVIEW; THERMODYNAMICS;

CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES, ANALYTICAL; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; PHYSICS; QUANTUM THEORY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84871343585     PISSN: 00344885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/76/1/016101     Document Type: Article

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