I am reading "How the Scots Invented the Modern World, The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It" by Arthur Herman, ISBN 0-609-80999-7. The led me to check Scotland's contribution to science as evidenced by the metric units thay have been named after Scots. I found the following countries as birthplaces of these scientists: Germay: Ohm, Hertz, Siemens, Weber, Gauss, R�ntgen France: Amp�re, Pascal, Coulomb, Becquerel, Poisson Scotland: Kelvin, Watt, Maxwell, Napier, Bell Enmgland: Newton, Joule, Faraday, Stokes Italy: Volta, Galileo, Fermi, Torricello Sweden: Celsius, Sievert, �ngstr�m USA: Henry, Gray Jugoslavia: Jansky, Tesla Poland: Curie Denmark: Oersted
I have been unable to verify the birthplaces of Sievert, �ngstr�m, Gray, and Oersted; and I do not know from what component parts of the erstwhile Jugoslavia that Jansky and Tesla came from. -- Joseph B. Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Telephone 416-486-6071
