Chris Sutton

Chris Sutton

He serves on national and international committees that oversee and ensure world-wide consistency in international measurements. He was also involved in the preparation of New Zealand’s Measurement Standards Act in 1992 which led to the establishment of MSL^[?].

His own research has also contributed to scientific advances in the fields of pressure balances, mass and later, length measurement. This includes world-leading work on the performance of gas-operated pressure balances. This work led him to propose the use of twin pressure balances as the basis for a Watt balance experiment to measure the Planck Constant and ultimately provide a way to express a kilogram weight in terms of the Planck Constant.