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DR. CHARLES-EDOTJARD GUILLAUME, director of the Bureau international des Poids et Mesures, is retiring after fifty-three years in the service of metrology. The permanent administrative committee of the International Committee of Weights and Measures, which consists of Prof. V. Volterra of Rome (president), Prof. B. Cabrera of Madrid (secretary), Prof. P. Janet of Paris, Prof. P. Zeeman of Amsterdam, and Dr. C. E. Guillaume, has nominated M. Albert Perard, assistant-direct or of the Bureau, to succeed Dr. Guillaume. M. Pérard, like his predecessor, has spent all his life at the Bureau; he is best known for his work on the metrology of the interference of light. The Bureau, ‘the oldest of the international scientific organizations, is at the Pavilion de Breteuil, Sevres, Seine-et-Oise; since the signature of the Convention of the Metre in 1875, it has been under the direction in turn of G. Govi, O. J. Broch, J. R. Benoit and Dr. Guillaume.
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Bureau international des Poids et Mesures. Nature 138, 755 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138755d0
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