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A Key for the Acronyms of National Metrology Institutes

 

Acronym Laboratory name
BIPM International Bureau of Weights and Measures, France
BNM-INM (France)a
Bureau National de Métrologie - Institut National de Métrologie
CENAM (Mexico)
Centro Nacional de Metrologia
CSIR (South Africa)b
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
CSIRO (Australia)c
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
HUT (Finland)d
Helsinki Unversity of Technology
IFA-CSIC (Spain)
Instituto de Fisica Aplicada - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas
KRISS (South Korea)
Korean Research Institute of Standards and Science
MSL (New Zealand)
Measurement Standards Laobratory of New Zealand - Industrial Research Limited
NIM (China)
National Institute of Metrology
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
NMIJ (Japan)
National Metrology Institute of Japan
NMi-VSL (Netherlands)e
NMi-Van Swinden Laboratorium
NPL (Great Britain)
National Physical Laboratory
NRC (Canada)
National Research Council
OMH (Hungary)f
National Office of Measures
PTB (Germany)
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
SMU (Slovakia)
Slovak Institute of Metrology
VNIIOFI (Russia)
All-Russian Research Institute for Optical-physical Measurements

 

a Now known as Laoratoire National de Métrologie et d'Essais / Institut National de Métrologie (LNE-INM).
b Now known as National Metrology Institute of South Africa (NMISA).
c Now known as National Metrology Institute of Australia.
d Now known as Metrology Research Institute, Centre for Metrology and Accreditation (MIKES).
e Now known as VSL.
f Now known as Hungarian Trade Licensing Office (MKEH).
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