PAPERS ON "SCIENTIFIC-RESEARCH WORK IN METROLOGY"

Translated from Izmeri te l 'naya T ekhnika, No. 4,

p. 54, April, 1965

A collection of work of the institutes of the State Committee of Standards, Measures and Measuring Instruments of the USSR, No. 76 (136) on nSCIENTIFIC-RESEARCH WORK IN METROLOGY" has come off the press.

The collection contains materials of the scientific conference of the All-Union Scientific-Research Institute

of Metrology (VNIIM) devoted to the 130th anniversary of the birth of its founder, the great Russian scientist Dmitri

Ivanovich Mendeleev.

Papers on the history of the Institute and the scientific activity of D. I. Mendeleev are included in the collec-

tion, as well as papers on the progress of metrological work in our own time. These papers describe the present state

of measurements and the precision attained in measuring length, mass, t ime, thermal and temperature quantities,

in electrical, magnetic, mechanical and physicochemical measurements, and in measuring ionizing radiations.

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