
Appendix C
CODATA recommended values
The Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) is an inter-
disciplinary committee of the International Council for Science. The CODATA
Task Group on Fundamental Constants has the purpose of periodically pro-
viding the international scientific and technological communities with an in-
ternationally accepted set of values of the fundamental physical constants and
closely related conversion factors for use worldwide.
The CODATA 2010 set of recommended values is based on results of exper-
iments published before 31 December 2010 and is published in international
reviews (CODATA 2010) and on the NIST website. ...