Terence Quinn

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Terence John Quinn CBE FRS is a British physicist, and emeritus director of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, where he was director from 1988 until 2003.

Life

He received a B.Sc. in physics from the University of Southampton in 1959, and D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 1963.

He was at the National Physical Laboratory until 1977, working with his colleague John Martin. [1] He was editor of Notes and Records of the Royal Society from 2004 until 2007. [2]

He is on the CODATA Task Group, of the International Council for Science (ICSU). [3]

He won the Richard Glazebrook Medal and Prize in 2003.

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References

  1. Martin, John (2008). "A career at the National Physical Laboratory". Notes and Records of the Royal Society. 62: 139–148. doi: 10.1098/rsnr.2007.0044 . S2CID   73160287.
  2. "- The Royal Society". royalsociety.org. Archived from the original on 14 November 2010.
  3. "CODATA, the Committee on Data for Science and Technology". Archived from the original on 27 August 2011. Retrieved 25 October 2011.