At 20:58 +0100 02/06/22, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Avoiding the 'nationality' issue, the following are birthplaces (if web
sources are accurate):
Ampere - France
Kelvin - Ireland (Belfast - now Northern Ireland)
Hertz - Germany
Newton - England
Pascal - France
Joule - England
Watt - Scotland
Coulomb - France
Volta - Italy
Farad - England
Ohm - Germany
Siemens - Germany
Weber - Germany
Tesla - Croatia
Henry - USA
Celsius - Sweden
Becquerel - France
Gray - Sweden
Sievert - Sweden
I have to disagree with you about Gray:
"The unit of absorbed dose in the SI
system for units and measures (1975), is named after British physicist
and radiation biologist Louis Harold Gray
(1905-1965)".
See for instance
http://indykfi.atomki.hu/indyKFI/MT/0gray.htm
Louis
