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[Introduction]Author(s): Alan CookSource: Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Jan., 2001), p. 147Published by: The Royal SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/532151 .

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Notes Rec. R. Soc. Lond. 55 (1), 147-160 (2001)

CENTENARY OF THE NPL

by

SIR ALAN COOK, F.R.S.

8 Wootton Way, Cambridge CB3 9LX, UK ([email protected])

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) attained its centenary in 2000 and that was the occasion for a meeting in The Royal Society on 7 November 2000. The centenary is part of the record of The Royal Society because Fellows of the Society actively promoted the formation of the laboratory, and the programme of the Laboratory in its early years was guided by a committee of the Society. In addition, some of the researches of the Laboratory were supported by grants from the government grant administered by the Society. The relations between the early Laboratory and the Society are not unlike those between the Society and the early Royal Observatory more than 200 years earlier. The centenary of the NPL was indeed an event of the last year of the Second Millennium, and so we include this account of the meeting of 7 November, which includes Lord Sainsbury's and the President's Addresses and abstracts of the presentations from other speakers.

Figure 1. NPL, Bushy House. © Crown copyright 1980. Reproduced by permission of the Controller of HMSO.

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