Dear Joe, Thank you for this list of metric names. However, should we not restrict ourselves to the SI names and the other Special Names (19 of the former and 10 of the latter).
I think that the fact that SI uses only 29 unit names � in total � is an extremely strong argument in favor of the adoption of SI. You well know that these 29 unit names replace some hundreds of thousands of old, randomly devised, and rarely defined unit names. Cheers, Pat Naughtin LCAMS Geelong, Australia on 2003-02-26 12.08, Joseph B. Reid at [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 >
