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Damage of Multiphase Materials. Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Sevres, Paris, France. 1996 ISBN 0-7923-4188-0... 

Consultative Committee on Amount of Substance (1998) Report of the fourth meeting. BIPM, Sevres, Paris... 

The original metre rule was kept in the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sevres, near Paris, and was a rod of... 

CIPM), which meets annually and oversees the work of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM). The BIPM, based at Sevres just outside Paris, has the responsibility for international standards and is a center for international research and cooperation in metrology. The CIPM has created a number of advisory specialist committees (consultative committees) that are each chaired by a member of CIPM. The committee of interest to chemists is the Consultative Committee on the Amount of Substance (CCQM). It oversees the Avogadro project and coordinates a series of international interlaboratory trials called Key Comparisons (BIPM 2003), which... 

Laboratoire de Biochimie Hopital Necker Enfants Malades 149 Rue de Sevres 75015 Paris France... 

The basic unit of mass in the SI system is the kilogram (Table 1-6). The kilogram is defined as the mass of a platinum-iridium cylinder stored in a vault in Sevres, near Paris, France. A 1-lb object has a mass of 0.4536 kg. The basic mass unit in the earlier metric system was the gram. A U.S. five-cent coin (a nickel ) has a mass of about 5 g. 

The unit of length or distance in the metric system is the meter. The meter was originally defined as 1 ten-millionth of the distance from the north pole to the equator through Paris, France. That is a rather difficult measurement to make, so later the meter was defined as the distance between two scratches in a special bar kept in a vault in Sevres, France. There is an even later definition, but we will be satisfied that it is the distance between those two... 

In 1875, the Conventimi du Metre defined the unit in terms of engraved lines on a platinum-iridium artifact stored at the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) at Sevres on the outskirts of Paris practical realizaticms required comparison of artifacts with the meter. In 1892-1893 Michelson and Benoit made the first measurement of the meter by comparisOTi to... 

In 1903 the Davy Medal of the Royal Society was awarded to Pierre and Mme Curie, and in the same year the Nobel Prize for Physics was divided between Henri Becquerel and the two Curies. Pierre Curie was killed in a street accident in April 1906 and Mme. Curie continued the work alone. The University of Paris awarded her the chair of her late husband, the first time such a post in France had been held by a woman. She taught for many years at the ficole Normale for women teachers at Sevres, and in 1908 became the first woman titular professor at the Sorbonne. In 1911 she was persuaded to submit herself for election to the Institut, but was rejected as a compensation she could in the same year claim a second Nobel Prize, in chemistry, and in 1922 she was elected a member of the Academy of Medicine. 

The Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM), which has its headquarters in Sevres near Paris, has taken on a commitment to ensure worldwide unifi-... 

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