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AFTER an interval of nine years, the International Committee of Weights and Measures held its first plenary session since 1937 during October 22-29, 1946. The meetings of the Committee which should have taken place in 1939 could not be held owing to the outbreak of war, and the only other meeting which has been possible in the meanwhile was an unofficial one of a few members in 1945 to prepare the way for the recent session. By its constitution, the members of the Committee, which functions under the authority of the treaty known as the “Convention du Mètre”, must all be of different nationalities. On this occasion the members present were MM. Louis de Broglie (France), G. Cassinis (Italy), M. Chatelain (U.S.S.R.), E. C. Crittenden (U.S.A.), M. Dehalu (Belgium), W. J. de Haas (Holland), E. S. Johansen (Denmark), W. Kösters (Germany), Z. Rauszer (Poland), M. Ros (Switzerland) and J. E. Sears (Great Britain), together with M. A. Pèrard, director of the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures.
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INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. Nature 159, 325–326 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159325a0
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