In my experience, Gene, chemists are very much in the practice of using
SI. I completed my BS Nat. Sci. in 1968 with a major in chemistry. We
used SI. The American Chemical Society requires SI in its articles.
The only group of scientists that I have come across who use old cgs
units such as the dyne and erg are American astronomers. Internationally
the IAU espouses SI. However American dollars represent the major influx
of funding for astronomical journals so American astronomers hold sway
in print.
Jim
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On 2014-06-25 09:50, mechtly, eugene a wrote:
Mark (and Harold),
Dr. Willie May has worked as a chemist for 43 years and “advanced
through the Bureau” (now NIST), according to Secretary Penny Pritzker.
Chemists traditionally used centimeter-gram-second (cgs) units.
I can only hope Dr. May will vigorously promote SI, rather than cling to
cgs units with its dynes, ergs esu, emu, and the other out-dated metric
units associated with the cgs.
Secretary Pritzker of the Department of Commerce was a business woman,
not a scientist, but the global competition of world trade should be
enough to convince her to promote SI!
On Jun 24, 2014, at 2:18 PM, Mark Henschel <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Secretary Pritzger (Pritzker?) is the person I wrote a letter to years
ago asking her to please support the metric-only update of the FPLA.
She is from Chicago and I thought that might help get her to pay
attention to my letter. But yet again another message to the powers
that be that get ignored.
Mark Henschel
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 8:31 AM, mechtly, eugene a
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Dr. Willie May is the new NIST "Acting Director."
Eugene Mechtly
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_*NIST Director Gallagher Departs: Dr. Willie May to lead Agency*_
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at NIST, Pat will begin his tenure as the Chancellor of the
University of Pittsburgh in September. Commerce Secretary Pritzger
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Dear NIST Team:
I regret not being able to join you yesterday as you recognize
and celebrate Pat Gallagher’s tenure as Under Secretary for
Standards and Technology and Director of NIST. As you know, Pat
has been an outstanding Director of NIST, Acting DOC Deputy
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had a crisis, Pat stepped up and provided the steady hand of
leadership that was required. As I said earlier in the week, he
has been a great partner to me over this past year and I will miss
him tremendously.
But as with all great institutions, NIST has a very capable
leader, Dr. Willie May, ready to step in and fill this void.
Effective Monday June 16, 2014, Willie will officially be
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