Many scientists have been recognized with the assignment of their names as international units by the International Committee for Weights and Measures or as non-SI units. The International System of Units (abbreviated SI from French: Système international d'unités) is the most widely used system of units of measurement. There are 7 base units and 22 derived units[1] (excluding compound units). These units are used both in science and in commerce. Two of the base SI units and 17 of the derived units are named after scientists.[2] 28 non-SI units are named after scientists. By this convention, their names are immortalised. As a rule, the SI units are written in lowercase letters, but symbols of units derived from the name of a person begin with a capital letter.
Scientists and SI units
Base unit[note 1] | Derived unit |
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Scientists and non-SI units
See also
Notes
- ↑ There are 5 base units that are not named after people: kilogram, metre, second, mole and candela.
- ↑ The village he was born was a part of Austrian Empire, now it is in Croatia.
- ↑ As a rule, the units are written in lowercase letters. But, symbols of units derived from a personal name always begin with a capital letter.
References
- ↑ Essential of the SI
- ↑ Derived SI units with special names
- ↑ Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia
- ↑ Elektrik Mühendisliği pp. 247–275
- ↑ Young and Freedman, p. A-1
- ↑ |Andre Marie Ampere
- ↑ Ampere on Dictionary
- ↑ Kelvin, Lord William Thomson
- ↑ Inventors
- ↑ Blaise Pascal
- ↑ Pa Pascal pressure unit
- ↑ Isaac Newton's life
- ↑ Newton
- ↑ Anders Celsius (1701–1744)
- ↑ Celsius Definition
- ↑ Charles Augustin de Coulomb (French Physicist)
- ↑ Coulomb
- ↑ BBC Historic figures
- ↑ Watt conversion)
- ↑ Inventor Alessandro Volta Biography
- ↑ Volt
- ↑ "Georg Simon Ohm". St. Andrews University. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- ↑ Ohm (unit)
- ↑ Michael Faraday
- ↑ Farad
- ↑ Joseph Henry Archived 9 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Henry: Definition from Answers
- ↑ The New International Encyclopaedia: Weber
- ↑ Weber (unit)
- ↑ Siemens, Werner von
- ↑ Siemens (unit)
- ↑ "Biography:James Prescott Joule". Archived from the original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
- ↑ What is a Joule ?
- ↑ Henri Becquerel
- ↑ Tesla's Biography
- ↑ Tesla (unit)
- ↑ Heinrich Hertz
- ↑ Hertz
- ↑ Rolf Sievert, the man and the unit
- ↑ About L.G.Gray
- ↑ Gray
- ↑ Isaac Asimov: Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Pan Reference Books, London, 1972, ISBN 0-330-24323-3
- ↑ Elektrik Mühendisliği, TBMMO Yayın organı, 259–260, Ankara, 1978
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