Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA)

A committee set up by the International Council of Scientific Unions in 1966 to improve the compilation, critical evaluation, storage and retrieval of data of importance to science and technology. The committee consists principally of representatives of the various national standards laboratories, as well as the BIPM.

www.codata.org

CODATA periodically issues reports identifying the best current values for the principal physical constants, and also for certain conversion factors. Such reports appeared in 1973, 1986 and 1998. For values, see physics.nist.gov/constants

The reports thus far issued are:

1998

Peter J. Mohr and Barry N. Taylor.
CODATA Recommended Values of the Fundamental Physical Constants: 1998.
Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, volume 28, no. 6, pages 1713-1852 (1999).

Also in Reviews of Modern Physics, volume 72, no. 2, pages 351-495 (2000).

1986

E. R. Cohen and B. N. Taylor.
The 1986 adjustment of the fundamental physical constants.
CODATA Bulletin, Number 63, November 1986.
Pergamon Press (Oxford, UK, and Elmsford, NY)

Reprinted in Review of Modern Physics (USA), volume 59, page 1121 (1988).

1973

Recommended Consistent Values of the Fundamental Physical Constants, 1973, a Report of the CODATA Task Group on Fundamental Constants.
CODATA Bulletin 11.
CODATA Secretariat, 51 Blvd. de Montmorency, 75016 Paris, France (August 1973).

E. R. Cohen and B. N. Taylor.
J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data (USA), volume 2, page 263 (1973). {CHECK--page 663??}