World Metrology Day: holiday history

Who are the metrologists? This is a very interesting profession, whose representatives are engaged in data comparison. The scales used in the store, the lights that illuminate the road, radar, water, light, heat and gas meters - all these devices are checked for compliance of measuring instruments with both international and state-established requirements. Metrologist is a very revered and rare profession. The more important is the professional holiday - World Metrology Day.

Origins

The day of the metrologist is celebrated in the spring, to be exact, on May 20. It began to celebrate not so long ago - with a proposal made by UNESCO, finally approving the first official year of celebration - 2001. Being a metrologist means constantly working with measuring instruments. Dmitry Mendeleyev also highly appreciated the metric system, which appeared in France in the XIX century. It was Dmitry Ivanovich who became the founder of metrology in our country. He wrote: "Science begins when you begin to measure." Metron in Greek means "measure" - hence the name of this ultra-precise science arose. Some time later, Dmitry Mendeleev launched a metric reform, which swept the wave across Russia. A few years later, at the international level, a well-known Metric Convention was established, approved by seventeen countries, including Russia in its ranks.

Continuation of a story

The day of the metrologist in Russia was approved a little later than at the international level - it was 2004. The Metric Convention, established several centuries earlier, became the largest agreement on scientific and technical cooperation. A significant role in the development of science played by Russian scientists.

Today it is difficult to imagine an industry without the existence of metrology. And in the simple life of every person, this science plays a certain role - weighing scales, determining the time by the hour, measuring the desired values with a ruler or temperature with a thermometer - everywhere we meet with metric devices. What can we say about large organizations, factories, institutions whose quality work would be impossible without the achievements of this exact science. It was not for nothing that the exemplary measures were treated with trepidation even in antiquity - they were kept in especially revered places, such as temples and churches.

Progress does not stand still

The day of the metrologist in Russia is of particular importance, as today the requirements for measuring instruments have become much tougher. In modern technologies, ultra-precise standards of measures are applied. A new direction was launched - nanometrology. One can only imagine how much patience, knowledge and diligence is required for those people who decided to link their destiny with this sphere of activity.

Indeed, in fact, many of us do not even suspect what kind of titanic work was done so that a person could use such a familiar object as a clock every day. The day of the metrologist is noted with special importance, because if you destroy the measuring system, everything that is around us will be destroyed. This science is so significant that the activities of representatives of this profession were identified by the relevant articles in the RF Constitution concerning its regulation.

Congratulations, metrologists!

Congratulations with the day of the metrologist are always filled with sincere words of gratitude. On the eve of the holiday, the directors of international metrology organizations send out messages that indicate the most outstanding achievements for the past year. Also, the best employees are identified, who were able to achieve unsurpassed results. Metrologists are awarded, they are given valuable gifts, they are celebrated with gratitude. In addition, every year the World Metrology Day is held under different mottos, for example, such as "Measurements and Light" or "Metrology and Security". The main wish that sounds for all representatives of this uneasy profession is to know and love your business. It is difficult to imagine, but every second in the country is carried out to one billion measurements. It is noteworthy that these studies are not carried out for the sake of scientific curiosity, but for the sake of clarifying any insignificant details that can subsequently affect the quality of a particular product.

Let everything be as accurate as possible

Realizing the importance of the profession of a metrologist, one can imagine how important is the World Metrological Day holiday not only for the representatives of this profession, but also for each individual. On the holiday, specialists in this field of activity want happiness and new discoveries, stable earnings and successful agreements. And many, many ordinary human joy.

Being constantly in the "environment" of numbers, figures, examples, formulas it is difficult to notice what is happening around - whether the sun is shining or it is raining, the first flower has blossomed or the first snowflake has fallen. It is these simple things that metrologists desire on their professional holiday. And even more rarely hear the word "error" and more often - "everything is extremely clear."