14. Juli 2012 "
Tag der offenen Tür" der PTB in Braunschweig
17. Oktober 2012 Vorträge zur modernen Metrologie
Audimax, TU-Berlin, öffentliche Veranstaltung
17. Oktober 2012 Einweihung des Observatoriums der PTB
PTB, Institut Berlin, geschlossene Veranstaltung
Special Anniversary Publications
The 125th anniversary is also reflected in PTB's publications of 2012. On the occasion of the anniversary, both the "PTB-Mitteilungen" (the metrological journal of PTB) and the "maßstäbe" (the popular-science magazine of PTB) focus on special subjects. Furthermore, PTB has had its book series on the history of the institute reprinted and is making the "classical" experimental physics reference book "Praktische Physik" by Friedrich Kohlrausch available at its website.
Between the end of 2011 and the end of 2012, five special issues of the PTB-Mitteilungen - the metrological journal of PTB - will be published, which together make a “metrological textbook”. Usually, the PTB-Mitteilungen are published in German only. These five issues, however, will also be published in English.
- PTB’s Technical Cooperation
(to be published in December 2011) - The System of Units
(to be published in March 2012) - PTR/PTB: 125 Years of Metrological Research
(to be published in June 2012) - The Development of Modern Metrology
(to be published in September 2012) - Metrology for the Future
(to be published in December 2012)
The popular-science magazine of PTB takes advantage of the occasion of the anniversary to journalistically highlight outstanding scientific themes of PTR and PTB – with reports, reportages and interviews on current topics and their scientific-historical roots. The maßstäbe are published in German.
- Enthüllungen125
(Issue No.12 of maßstäbe will be published in March 2012)
Reprint of the PTB book series (published by Wirtschaftsverlag NW) on the historical development from the founding in 1887 to German reunification. These books are only available in German.
- David Cahan,
Meister der Messung. Die Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt im Deutschen Kaiserreich. - Ulrich Kern,
Forschung und Präzisionsmessung, Die Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt zwischen 1918 und 1948. - Dieter Kind,
Herausforderung Metrologie. Die Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt und die Entwicklung seit 1945.
Another approach to the roots of PTR has been chosen by the authors Huebener and Lübbig. They do not concentrate on the history of the institute, but rather on the history of science – based on selected research subjects of PTR. The book is available in German and English.
- Rudolf Huebener, Heinz Lübbig.
Die Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt. Ihre Bedeutung beim Aufbau der modernen Physik. (Vieweg-Teubner Verlag, 2011). English edition: A Focus of Discoveries (World Scientific, 2008)
PTB has digitized “Praktische Physik” by Friedrich Kohlrausch, a standard work which had been continually expanded and updated from 1870 to the end of the 20th century, and has made it available online.
- Praktische Physik, Bände 1-3
Friedrich Kohlrausch, 24. Auflage
(This last printed edition was published in 1996 by Teubner-Verlag)
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