Michael Moldover

For more than 50 years, Michael Moldover and his collaborators have measured the thermophysical properties of fluids to solve scientific and engineering problems and to improve standards of temperature, pressure and flow. Moldover is the leader of NIST’s Fluid Metrology Group, a Fellow of NIST, the American Physical Society, and the Acoustical Society of America. From 2018 onward, the Boltzmann constant will be exactly 1.380649 x 10-23 joule/kelvin. Is it any wonder that his cats are named “Joule” and “Kelvin”?

Wed, 01/17/2018 - 12:01
Proving Our Mettle: NIST and the Boltzmann Constant Olympics Accurate measurements are harder to come by than you might think
Wed, 01/17/2018 - 12:01
How tall are you? How old? How much do you weigh? Do you care? Is it important to you that the measurements for height, age, and weight are accurate? What about the measurement of the gasoline that you pump into your tank? Is it important that the…