On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of PTR/PTB, the 1987 Helmholtz Prize was awarded in three different subject areas. In the field of “Precision Measurement of Physical Quantities”, Dr. Fritz…
In 1962, the British physicist Brian Josephson predicted a surprising effect between weakly coupled superconductors that would allow reference voltages to be reproduced with high accuracy.This…
The Helmholtz Prize was first established in 1973, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Helmholtz Fund. The prize was to be awarded for a work of "research and development in the…