Keeping Perfect Time With Caged Atoms

• Published in: IEEE Spectrum
• Main Authors: Porfyrakis, K, Laird, E A
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Franz Josef Land; Fridtjof; North Pole; Cape Fligely; Fridtjof Nansen; North Atlantic; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/124386/; https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/124386/4/Atomic_clocks_final.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2017.8118481

For Fridtjof Nansen, 13 April 1895 started well. Six days earlier, the Norwegian explorer had set a new record for the closest approach to the North Pole, and now he was moving quickly over unbroken sea ice toward Cape Fligely and home. But then came a sickening realization: In his eagerness to brea...