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.
The following would be the list of scientists whose names survived from the old metric system into the SI (Syst�me international d'unit�s) or whose names are used for non-SI units accepted for use with SI units
Country Scientists after whom SI units were named
France: Amp�re, Pascal, Coulomb, Becquerel
Scotland: Kelvin, Watt, Napier, Bell
England: Newton, Joule, Faraday, Gray
Germany: Ohm, Hertz, Siemens, Weber
Sweden: Celsius, Sievert, �ngstr�m
Italy: Volta
USA: Henry
Croatia: TeslaI notice that I misspelled the name of Evangelista Torricelli in USMA 24936.
I don't know where Terry gets his figures from. Of the SI base units only the amp�re and kelvin were named after human beings. There are only 20 other scientists that I have found in the lists of SI derived units with special names and non-SI units accepted for use with the SI.
Joe -- Joseph B. Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Telephone 416-486-6071
