In the second half of the last century solid state physics and materials science experienced a great advance and established itself as an important and independent new field.This book provides an intr
Using the well documented history of the Physical-Technical Imperial Institute and its successor, Berlin Institute of the Physical-Technical Federal Institution as a framework, Huebener (emeritus, Ebe
In 1887, the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) was originally founded as the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (PTR) in Berlin in order to promote basic research in physics. It subsequen
