Chris,
just think of the radioactive people like the Curies and Bequerel (rad.
activity), Gray (energy dosis), Sievert (man-equivalent dosis). Then
there was Georg Ohm for el. resistance and, for what his name is read
"Mho" backwards in the US, Siemens for conductivity. Then, most
important, Coulomb for charge, Weber for magnetic flux, Tesla for the
magnetic field power and, for chemists, since 1999 Katal for katalytic
force (joke, George F. Katal didn't exist). Celsius should be replaced
by Kelvin - same scale units, but relative to absolute zero (-273°C).
Sorry to say, this system highly satisfies scientists, but in practical
lab or shop use it's annoying sometimes, mostly because of bulky numbers
and many zeroes like Farad, Pascal or Kelvin.
Peter
Am 16.02.2019 um 20:18 schrieb Chris Albertson:
Notice that now-days many of the "standard" SI units are named for
long-dead scientests
Volt,
Ampere,
Watt,
Henry,
Farad,
Joule,
Hertz,
Newton,
Pascal,
Celsus,
Kelvin,
Likely a lot more I can't remember.
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