Terry Quinn
Bureau International des Poids et Mesures
Pavillon de Breteuil
Equipment Division
F-92312 Sèvres Cedex FRANCE
TEL: 011 331 4507 7070
FAX: 011 331 4534 2021
EMAIL: tquinn@bipm.fr
POSITION ON MiniSTEP PROJECT:
EDUCATION
- B.Sc., University of Southampton, UK, 1959.
- Ph.D., University of Oxford, UK, 1963.
EXPERIENCE
- 1962-1977 - Junior Research Fellow, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington,
UK.
- Worked on radiation thermometry, temperature scales, and on an acoustic
determination of the gas constant.
- 1977 - Senior Principal Scientific Officer and Head of the Temperature
and Mass Sections.
- 1967-1968 - Visiting Scientist, National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg.
- Working on radiation and acoustic thermometry.
- 1978-Present - Deputy Director, Bureau International des Poids et Mesures,
Sèvres France.
- Developed his interests in mass and balances. He also continued collaboration
in work at the NPL that resulted in radiometric determinations of the Stefan-Boltzmann
constant and thermodynamic temperature.
- 1988 Director of the BIPM.
HONORS, APPOINTMENTS AND
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- Royal Society Visiting Fellow, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.
- Worked on the anelastic properties of a Cu-Be alloy used as the flexure
elements in a flexure strip balance developed at the BIPM and since used
in experiments to search for a 5th Force and anomalous mass changes in
spinning gyroscopesm (1984-1985).
- Fellow of the Institute of Physics.
- Fellow of the American Physical Society.
PUBLICATIONS
Over 60 published papers in journals and conference proceedings.
