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Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Jens Simon, born in 1962, has followed two academic paths as he moved between Braunschweig, Jülich and Cologne. One path led to a doctorate at the Technical University of Braunschweig in German linguistics on the language of the author Arno Schmidt. The other path led to a doctorate at the University of Cologne and the Forschungszentrum Jülich in theoretical physics on quantum dynamics with wave packets and trajectories. The synthesis of the two initially guided him into science journalism and writing, then – more than 20 years ago now – to the beautiful task of heading press and public relations at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt. One of his tasks is to communicate physics and science.
Leitmotif
Always think first of those who listen to you.
Activities
Among the special activities of the PTB press office are publishing the science journalism magazine “maßstäbe” (each of the infrequent issues is produced in-house entirely, from the initial idea to the final layout), the magazine “Junge Wissenschaft” (an online journal for the primary publications of young researchers) and giving lectures on physics topics – in particular the unit system – to pupils, school teachers and the general public.
The 20th of May 2019 is a special day. From that day on, the old definitions of what a kilogram, a mole, an ampere and a kelvin represent, are history. The future of the International (…)
Don't Give the Slightest Chance to Toxic Elements in Medicinal Products
Lead, cadmium, mercury, and arsenic do not belong in medicinal products. International requirements for the quality of medicines have therefore become more stringent and introduced new control requirements. Hence, it makes sense to use high-accuracy reference solutions with defined contents ... more
Measurement of the dynamic mechanical properties of viscous materials
In microsystems metallic components are increasingly being replaced by those from low-cost polymers. For the thickness measurement of polymers, there is now the DIN standard 32567 available, which describes both, optical and tactile surface measuring methods for the precise measurement of t ... more
The most accurate optical single-ion clock worldwide
Atomic clock experts from the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) are the first research group in the world to have built an optical single-ion clock which attains an accuracy which had only been predicted theoretically so far. As early as 1981, Hans Dehmelt, who was to be awarded a ... more
Natural constants take center stage
The 20th of May 2019 is a special day. From that day on, the old definitions of what a kilogram, a mole, an ampere and a kelvin represent, are history. The future of the International System of Units will see natural constants play the star roles. more
How the Avogadro constant was measured for the last time
Since the 20th of May 2019, the mass unit kilogram is no longer defined by the international kilogram prototype but by the numerical value of the Planck constant, the most important fundamental constant in quantum physics. For this definition, the Planck constant needed to be measured with ... more
It is now more than 30 years since attempts started to find a way of defining the kilogram based on an atomic constant or a fundamental physical constant. Since then, two methods have advanced sufficiently far to make it likely that there will be a new definition within the coming years, na ... more
Joachim Ullrich, born in 1956, studied geophysics and physics at the University of Frankfurt where, after graduating in 1983, he also completed his doctorate in 1987 and qualified as a professor in 1994. From 1989 to 1997 he worked as a research assistant at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionen ... more
Horst Bettin, born in 1955, studied physics at the Technical University of Braunschweig where he completed his PhD at the Institute for Semiconductor Physics and Optics. In 1990 he joined the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt and focused his research mainly on density measurements. He h ... more
studied physics at the University of Münster and received his doctorate in 1974 from the Institut für Physik der Universität Dortmund (Dortmund University Institute of Physics). From there he moved to Physikalisch-Technischen Bundesanstalt (National Metrology Institute) in Braunschweig (Bru ... more
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