TY - CHAP A1 - Hedrich, Martina A1 - Czichos, Horst ED - Czichos, Horst ED - Saito, T. ED - Smith, L. T1 - The development of RM activities and application examples T2 - Springer handbook of metrology and testing N2 - Activities for the development of reference materials started as early as 1906 at the US National Bureau of Standards (NBS). In 1912, the first iron and steel reference materials were certified for carbon content in Germany by the Royal Prussian Materials Testing Institute MPA, predecessor of BAM, the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing. KW - Reference materials PY - 2011 SN - 978-3-642-16640-2 SP - Chapter 3.7.7, 105 EP - 107 PB - Springer CY - Berlin, Heidelberg AN - OPUS4-32435 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -