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Press releases 1996

"Meet the World" will be the motto of this year's Microtecnic which will be held in Frankfurt from October 15 to 18 and will make the city the meeting place of international experts from the fields of mechanical production metrology and quality assurance.

Microtecnic carries on a successful tradition - since it was first held in 1967, Microtecnic's importance as a fair for mechanical production...

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As a measure of the acid or alkaline quality of a solution, the pH value is an important measurand as, among other things, in process technology, medicine and environmental protection. The measurement of the pH value also serves to control and regulate biological and chemical processes.

It is decisive for the comparability of pH value measurements to be ensured that the reference materials used for...

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With the assistance of the European Union, a novel series of conferences entitled "Advanced Mathematical Tools in Metrology" was organized in Europe in 1993, which deals with mathematical and software-based issues of metrology and has no equal up to now. The third working conference of this series will take place from September 25 to 28, 1996, at the traditional Magnushaus at Kupfergraben in...

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Vom 25. bis 28. September 1996 wird die diesjährige Innovationsmesse erstmals auf dem neuen Messegelände Leipzigs stattfinden. Zentrales Anliegen dieser Messe ist es, den Innovationsprozeß in seiner gesamten Komplexität zu erfassen und unter dem Motto "Ideen von heute - Märkte von morgen" auf die Beschleunigung des Innovationsprozesses Einfluß zu nehmen. Vorrangig werden mittelständische...

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ISEM, the International Symposium on Non-Linear Electromagnetics, will be held in Braunschweig from May 12 to 14, 1997. The Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) will be the organizer of this interdisciplinary conference whose program will be dominated by the latest problems of applied electrical engineering, micro electromechanics, biosensor technology and biomagnetism. Established by the...

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Richtfest für ein modernes Laboratoriumsgebäude der PTB im ehemaligen "Deutschen Arbeitsschutzmuseum" in Berlin-Charlottenburg am 13. August 1996

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On June 17, 1996, on the occasion of this year's International Symposium on Electrical Insulation (ISEI), the Thomas W. Dakin Award was presented to Prof. Dr. Ing. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Dieter Kind, the former president of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt.

This prize is the highest honour of the Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronical...

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On June 28, 1996, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences elected Prof. Dr. Ernst O. Göbel, President of the PTB, to be a regular member in the mathematics and natural sciences class.

By this election, the members of the Academy demonstrate their appreciation for the scientific work which Prof. Göbel has done to date. They also hope that his election will give incentives to the Academy's own...

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