News of the year

Scientific Divisions

• New silicon load cells
• New Quantum Standard for Capacitance of Unmatched Accuracy
• Primary standard for the measurement of clinical protein markers
• First Bose-Einstein condensate with alkaline earth atoms
• Dimensional measurements on pistoncylinder systems
• Live Cell Imaging
• THz radiation at the Metrology Light Source
• Insight into the immune system

Advisory Board

• The 60th meeting of the Kuratorium (Advisory Board) of PTB

Presidential Board

• EU Funding for the European Metrology Research Programme approved
• Hermann von Helmholtz Symposium and Prize
• Visit by the Federal Minister of Economics
• Cooperation agreement with China extended

Quality management

• Quality management

Legal Metrology

• PTB joins OIML-MAA

Technology Transfer

• Successful technology transfer – "Rheumatism video" reveals centres of inflammation at an early stage

Information Technology

• ArchiSafe – Electronic files in perpetuity

Technical Cooperation

• New times for the cooperation with Armenia
• Ghana as precursor of metrology in West Africa
• Setting up the regional quality infrastructure in the Caribbean

Press and Information Office

• Primary school pupils experiment at PTB