Impact of Atomic Physics on Fundamental Constants
Author:
Deslattes Richard D.
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1. The next major iteration of the continuing process is due to appear in the near future through the efforts of B.N. Taylor and E.R. Cohen under the aegis of the CODATA Task Group on Fundamental Constants. Its predecessor is to be found in E.R. Cohen and B.N. Taylor, Jour. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data 2, 663 (1973). 2. F.K. Richtmyer, Science 75, 1 (1932). 3. Last year’s Nobel Lectures represent a convenient point of departure, V.L. Fitch, Science 212, 989 (1981); J.W. Cronin, ibid., 1221. 4. There are many alternative perspectives on this area among which the reader may wish to examine (titles are indicated for guidance): J.-M. Levy-Leblond, “On the Conceptual Nature of the Physical Constants”, Revista del Nuovo Cimento 7 Nr. 2, pp. 187–214 (1977). Kastler and P. Grivet, “The Measurement of Fundamental Constants (Metrology) and its Effect on Scientific and Technical Progress”, in Atomic Masses and Fundamental Constants 5, J.H. Sanders and A.H. Wapstra, Eds., Plenum Press, N.Y. (1976), pp. 1–23. A.H. Cook, “Standards of Measurement and the Structure of Physical Knowledge”, Contemporary Physics 18, No. 4, pp. 393–409 ( 1977 ). General guides to the field have been rare. The most recent is that due to B. Petley, “The Fundamental Physical Constants and the Frontier of Measurement,” Adam Hilger (London), (1983). 5. See, eg, E.R. Cohen and J.W.M. DuMond, Rev. Mod. Phys. 37, 537 (1965).
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