The establishment of a global metric system of units as agreed upon in the Metre Convention relies on international as well as national institutes and organizations, of which Stefanie Reichert gives an overview.
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Reichert, S. The guardians of metrology. Nat. Phys. 18, 222 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01511-4
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