EUROPE: EU COUNTRIES AGREE TO JOINT PROMOTION OF METROLOGY
July 1st, 2008
By Alan Osborn
Metrology, the science of measurement, has not figured largely in European research activities to date but that may change now that the European Union (EU) member states have come down in its favour and promised EU money to support it. Singing its praises for a range of business and industrial sectors, the EU Council of Ministers meeting on July 9th agreed that metrology "is a cross-disciplinary scientific field which is a vital component of a modern knowledge-based society."
No surprise then that the Council backed plans by the ...
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