Open Day
NPL Open Day and Open Evening 2010
On World Metrology Day, Thursday 20 May 2010, some 2,000 people flooded through NPL's gates to see some of the amazing research carried out.
If you missed the event, do watch the video introductions to some of our facilities or listen to the lectures online.
Open Day Presentations
Dr Felicia Green
Ambient Mass Spectrometry:
The future for instant chemical analysis
Dr Alex Knight
Nature’s Nanomachines: Understanding Biological
Molecules Through Single Molecule Measurements
Dr Gianluca Memoli
Soundscapes and action plans: the need
for a new metrology of noise perception
Dr JT Janssen
Graphene: A new exciting
material based on Carbon
Dr Martyn Sene & Fiona Auty
Be Amazed: NPL’s achievements
past and present
Dr Stuart Davidson
The redefinition of the kilogram - what, why, how and when?
Dr Michael de Podesta
How do you really know
what the temperature is?
Dr Andrew Lewis
A short (!) history of the
metre and length standards
Dr Patrick Gill
Time and frequency using atomic clocks
Dr Michael de Podesta
Dr Gianluca Memoli