'CODATA' ('Committee on Data for Science and Technology') was established in
1966 as an interdisciplinary committee of the
International Council of Science (ICSU), formerly the International Council of Scientific Unions. It seeks to improve the compilation, critical evaluation, storage, and retrieval of data of importance to
science and
technology.
The CODATA Task Group on Fundamental Constants was established in
1969. Its purpose is to periodically provide the international scientific and technological communities with an internationally accepted set of values of the fundamental
physical constants and closely related
conversion factors for use worldwide. The first such CODATA set was published in 1973, later in
1986,
1998,
2002 and the fifth in
2006.
The CODATA recommended values of fundamental physical constants are published at the NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty.
See also
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International System of Units
References
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CODATA recommended values of the fundamental physical constants: 2002, Peter J. Mohr and Barry N. Taylor, , , Reviews of Modern Physics, January 2005 An in-depth discussion of how the CODATA constants were selected and determined.
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CODATA recommended values of the fundamental physical constants: 1998, Mohr, P.J. and Taylor, B.N., , , Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 1999
★ Cox J.D., Wagman D.D. and Medvedev V.A. (1989) ''CODATA Key values for thermodynamics'' Hemisphere Publishing Corp., New York. ISBN 0-89116-758-7
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The 1986 CODATA recommended values of the fundamental physical constants, Cohen E.R. and Taylor B.N., , , Journal of research of the national bureau of standards, January 1987
External links
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CODATA
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ICSU (International Council for Science)
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CODATA Internationally recommended values of the Fundamental Physical Constants
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The NIST References on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty
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Simple table of the 2002 values
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NIST Collection of CODATA documents