Joseph wrote "John has pointed out to me that Pierre Curie collaborated with his wife Marie Curie, and that they did their work In France. "
Similarly Igor Sikorsky was born in Russia and settled in USA and he invented the helicopter. http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/5460/igor.html Madan --- "Joseph B. Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to a private posting from John "Kilopascal", > I can now produce > a revised list of the birthplaces of the scientists > who have been > honored by having metric units named after them. > > Germany: Ohm, Hertz, Siemens, Weber, Gauss, R�ntgen > France: Amp�re, Pascal, Coulomb, Becquerel, Poisson > Scotland: Kelvin, Watt, Maxwell, Napier, Bell > England: Newton, Joule, Faraday, Stokes, Gray > Italy: Volta, Galileo, Fermi, Torricello > Sweden: Celsius, Sievert, �ngstr�m > USA: Henry, Jansky > Croatia: Tesla > Poland: Curie > Denmark: Oersted > > John has pointed out to me that Pierre Curie > collaborated with his > wife Marie Curie, and that they did their work In > France. However, I > think it was she who received the Nobel Prize. A > similar problem > arises with Bell. Although he was born in Scotland, > Canada and the > USA quarrel over where he invented the telephone. > Certainly he made > the first long distance telephone call in Canada, > although he made > the first telephone call in his house in Boston. > -- > Joseph B. Reid > 17 Glebe Road West > Toronto M5P 1C8 Telephone 416-486-6071 > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/
