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Default list of scientific units named after people

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This is a list of scientific units named after people
SI base units
• Ampere, electric current – Andrι-Marie Ampθre
• Kelvin, thermodynamic temperature – Lord Kelvin
SI derived unit
• Becquerel, radioactivity – Henri Becquerel
• Degree Celsius, temperature – Anders Celsius
• Coulomb, electric charge – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
• Farad, capacitance – Michael Faraday
• Gray, absorbed dose of radiation - Louis Harold Gray
• Henry, inductance – Joseph Henry •
Hertz, frequency – Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
• Joule, energy, work, heat – James Prescott Joule
• Newton, force – Isaac Newton
• Ohm, electrical resistance – Georg Ohm
• Pascal, pressure – Blaise Pascal
• Siemens, electrical conductance – Werner von Siemens
• Sievert, radiation dose equivalent – Rolf Sievert
• Tesla, magnetic flux density – Nikola Tesla
• Volt, electric potential, electromotive force – Alessandro Volta
• Watt, power, radiant flux – James Watt
• Weber, magnetic flux – Wilhelm Eduard Weber
Centimeter-gram-second system of units
• Biot, electric current; Jean-Baptiste Biot
• Debye, electric dipole moment; Peter Debye
• Gauss, magnetic induction – Carl Friedrich Gauss
• Maxwell, magnetic flux – James Clerk Maxwell
• Oersted, magnetic field strength – Hans Christian Ψrsted
• Galileo, acceleration; Galileo Galilei
• Eotvos, gravitational gradient; Lorαnd Eφtvφs
No longer in use
• Franklin, electric charge – Benjamin Franklin
Others
• Angstrom, distance – Anders Jonas Εngstrφm
• Curie, radioactivity – Marie and Pierre Curie
• Decibel (i.e. tenths of Bels) dimensionless proportions and ratios, e.g. relative power levels – Alexander Graham Bell
• Degree Fahrenheit, temperature – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
• Jansky, flux density – Karl Jansky
• Neper, relative power level – John Napier
• Poise, viscosity – Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille
• Rφntgen, dosage of X-rays or gamma radiation – Wilhelm Rφntgen
• Richter scale, earthquake power – Charles Francis Richter
• Stokes, viscosity – George Gabriel Stokes
• Svedberg, sedimentation rate – Theodor Svedberg


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