Confrence Gnrale Des Poids Et Mesures

CGPM Meetings

• 1st (1889) - kilogram defined as mass of the international prototype kilogram (IPK) made of platinum-iridium and kept at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, Svres, France. International prototype metre sanctioned.
• 2nd (1897)
• 3rd (1901) - Litre redefined as volume of 1 kg of water. Clarified that kilograms are units of mass, "standard weight" defined, standard acceleration of gravity defined endorsing use of grams force and making them well-defined.
• 4th (1907) - carat = 200 mg adopted.
• 5th (1913) - International Temperature Scale proposed.
• 6th (1921) - Metre Convention revised.
• 7th (1927) - Consultative Committee for Electricity (CCE) created.
• 8th (1933) - need for absolute electrical unit identified.
• 9th (1948) - ampere, coulomb, farad, henry, joule, newton, ohm, volt, watt, weber defined. Lowercase l adopted as symbol for litre.
• 10th (1954) - kelvin, standard atmosphere defined. International System of Units (metre, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, candela) began.
• 11th (1960) - metre redefined in terms of wavelengths of light. Hertz, lumen, lux, tesla adopted. New metric system given the official symbol SI for Systme International d'Units, the "modernized metric system". Prefixes pico-, nano-, micro-, mega-, giga- and tera- confirmed.
• 12th (1964) - original definition of litre = 1 dm³ restored. atto- and femto- prefixes.
• 13th (1967) - second redefined as duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom at a temperature of 0 K. Degree Kelvin renamed kelvin. Candela redefined.
• 14th (1971) - new SI base unit mole defined. Pascal, siemens approved.
• 15th (1975) - peta- and exa- prefixes. Gray and becquerel radiological units.
• 16th (1979) - candela, sievert defined. Both l and L provisionally allowed as symbols for litre.
• 17th (1983) - metre redefined in terms of the speed of light, but keeps same length.
• 18th (1987) - conventional values adopted for Josephson constant, K_J, and von Klitzing constant, R_K, preparing the way for alternate definitions of the ampere and kilogram.
• 19th (1991) - new prefixes yocto-, zepto-, zetta- and yotta-.
• 20th (1995) - supplementary SI units (radian and steradian) become derived units.
• 21st (1999) - new SI derived unit, the katal = mole per second, for the expression of catalytic activity.
• 22nd (2003) - both the comma and dot on a line are accepted as decimal marker symbols.

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