Having one's name attached to a unit is just about the ultimate tribute in science. IMO, a bigger honor than the Nobel Prize.
W/out these people, we'd be living in the Middle Ages. FWIW, -John ============== > Last night I was looking at weather stations along the Columbia River near > Boneville Dam and I came up with this. Been pretty hot up there again. > A "Langley" > a CGS unit of heat transmission equal to one thermochemical calorie per > square centimeter, or exactly 41.84 kilojoules per square meter (kJ/m2). > Named for the American astronomer Samuel P. Langley (1834-1906), the > langley is used to express the rate of solar radiation received by the > earth. > > Came off the AGRIMET system on the US Bureau of Reclaimation site. > Agricultural statistics stuff. Pretty cool stuff. > New to me. > > William Rice > Austin Texas > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
