Thanks Bill. I note your distinction. Cheers,
Pat Naughtin on 2003-02-28 08.49, Bill Potts at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 >>> >
