Bryan Kibble

Bryan Peter Kibble (20 October 1938 – 28 April 2016) was a British physicist and a pioneering metrologist. He was the inventor of the Kibble balance, an improved version of the current balance, developed for the realisation of the S.I. unit of mass, the kilogram.

Bryan Peter Kibble
Born(1938-10-20)20 October 1938
Letcombe Regis, Berkshire, England (Oxfordshire since 1974)
Died28 April 2016(2016-04-28) (aged 77)
NationalityBritish
EducationAbingdon School, Jesus College, Oxford
OccupationPhysicist
EmployerNational Physical Laboratory
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