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Questions and answers

Proust’s questionnaires – made popular in a convenient form by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – measure the world. Numerous personalities answered the questions and revealed private things to the critical reader. Time for the “acolytes” (“Die Zeit”) to face comparison. We asked physicists – from the field of metrology in particular – how they assess the importance of their profession.

Do you want to know the answers given by the individual persons? Then click on a picture or a name.

If you want to see all the answers to some selected questions, start here.


Author: Birgit Ehlbeck
Internet-editor: Erika Schow