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Rethinking the kelvin

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Michael de Podesta discusses the current definition of the kelvin — and why it is worth changing one last time.

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  1. Michael de Podesta is at the Engineering Measurements Division of the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, TW11 0LW, UK,

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de Podesta, M. Rethinking the kelvin. Nature Phys 12, 104 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3617

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