Pat: As the purpose was to provide a comprehensive list (with country of origin) of those scientists who have been honored by the use of their names for metric units, I disagree that it should be restricted to those whose names survive as SI unit names -- certainly within the group posting to this list.
On the other hand, in any paper or article (in print or on a web site) on SI intended for a general readership, the list of names (if used) should be split into those that are used for SI units and those that were previously, but not currently, honored for pre-SI metric unit names. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Behalf Of Pat Naughtin >Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 13:39 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:24957] Re: Names of metric units > > >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 >>
