Scientific & Technical units named after people
| unit | symbol | person | quantity measured | value
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| ampere | A | André-Marie Ampère | electric current | C/s
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| angstrom | Å | Anders Jonas Ångström | length | 10-10 m
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| baud | - | Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot | signal transmission speed | 1 unit per second
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| becquerel | Bq | Antoine-Henri Becquerel | disintigration rate | one disintigration per second
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| bel | B | Alexander Graham Bell | power comparison | dimensionless
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| biot | Bi | Jean Baptiste Biot | electric current | 10 A
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| blondel | - | André-Eugène Blondel | luminence | p-1 cd·m-2
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| Bohr magneton | - | Niels Henrik David Bohr | magnetic moment | eh/4pme
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| brewster | B | Sir David Brewster | stress-optical coefficient | 10-12 m2/N
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| Bubnoff unit | - | Serge von Bubnoff | speed (of erosion) | 10-6 m/year
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| clausius | Cl | Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius | entropy | cal/K
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| coulomb | C | Charles-Augustin de Coulomb | electric charge | A·s
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| curie | Ci | Marie and Pierre Curie | disintigrtion rate | 3.7× 1010 Bq
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| dalton | - | John Dalton | mass | 1/16 the mass of an oxygen-16 atom
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| darwin | - | Charles Darwin | evolutionary change | -
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| debey | D | Peter Joseph Wilhelm Debey | electric dipole moment | 10-19 C·m
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| einstein | E | Albert Einstein | quanity of light | one mole of photons
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| Eotvos unit | E | Roland, Baron von Eötvös | gradient of acceleration | 10-9 s-2
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| erlang | r | Agner Krarup Erlang | communications traffic intensity | -
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| farad | F | Michael Faraday | electric capacitance | A·s/V
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| faraday | Fd | Michael Faraday | electric charge | the charge of a mole of electrons (about 9.65 × 104 C / mol)
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| fermi | fm | Enrico Fermi | length | 10e-15 m
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| franklin | Fr | Benjamin Franklin | electric charge | 3.33564× 10-10 C
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| fresnel | - | Augustin Jean Fresnel | frequency | 1012 Hz
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| gal | - | Galileo Galilei | acceleration | cm·s-2
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| gauss | G | Carl Friedrich Gauss | magnetic induction | 10-4 T
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| gilbert | - | William Gilbert | electromotive force | 10/4p A·turns
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| gray | Gy | L. H. Gray | radiation dose | J/kg
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| hartree | - | Douglas Rayner Hartree | energy | approximately 27.21 eV
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| hefner candle | - | Friedrich Franz von Hefner-Alteneck | luminous intensity | 0.903 candle
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| henry | H | Joseph Henry | inductance | V·s/A
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| hertz | Hz | Heinrich R. Hertz | frequency | 1 cycle/second
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| jansky | Jy | Karl C. Jansky | radio source strength | 10-26 J/m2·
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| joule | J | James Prescott Joule | energy | kg·m2s-2
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| kayser | K | Heinrich Gustav Johannes Kayser | wave number | wavelength/cm
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| kelvin | K | William Thompson, Lord Kelvin | temperature | -
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| lambert | lam | Johann Heinrich Lambert | luminance | lumen/cm2
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| langley | - | Samuel P. Langley | energy flux per area | cal/ cm2
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| mach | M, Ma | Ernst Mach | speed | [depends on the medium]
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| maxwell | Mx, M | James Clerk Maxwell | magnetic flux | 10-8 Wb
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| morgan | - | Thomas Hunt Morgan | genetic distance (on a chromosome) | -
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| neper | Np | John Napier | amplitude comparison | dimensionless |
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| newton | N | Isaac Newton | force | kg·m·s-2
| oersted | Oe | H. C. Oersted | magnetic field strength | maxwell/cm
| ohm | W | George Simon Ohm | electric resistance | -
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| pascal | Pa | Blaise Pascal | pressure | N/m2
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| planck | - | Max K. E. L. Planck | action | J·s
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| poise | P | Jean-Louis-Marie Poiseuille | dynamic viscosity | 0.1 Pa·s
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| poncelet | - | Jean Victor Poncelet | power | -
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| rayl | - | J. W. Strutt, 3rd Lord Rayleigh | acoustic impedence | Ns/m3
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| rayleigh | - | J. W. Strutt, 3rd Lord Rayleigh | luminous intensity | 106 photons /(cm)2 s
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| reyn | - | Osborne Reynolds | dynamic viscosity | 104·(1.45)-1 Pa·s
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| roentgen | R | William Conrad Röntgen | radiation exposure | 2.58 × 104 A·s/kg
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| rutherford | rd | Ernst Rutherford | disintigration rate | 106
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| rydberg | Ry | Johannes Robert Rydberg | energy | approx. 2.425 × 10-28 J
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| sabin | - | Wallace Clement Sabine | sound absorption | -
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| savart | - | Félix Savart | pitch interval | 1/300 of an octave
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| siemens | S | Ernst Werner von Siemens | electric conductance | W-1
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| sievert | Sv | R. M. Sievert | dose equivalent of radiation | J/kg
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| stokes | St | George Stokes | kinematic viscosity | 10-4 m2/s
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| Svedberg | S | Theodor S. Svedberg | sedimentation coefficient (time) | 10-13 s
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| sverdrup | - | Harald Ulrich Sverdrup | flow | 106 m3/s
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| talbot | - | William Henry Fox Talbot | quantity of light | lm·s
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| tesla | T | Nicola Tesla | magnetic flux density | kg/A·s2
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| torr | - | Evangelista Torricelli | pressure | 133.32 Pa
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| troland | - | Leonard T. Troland | retinal illumination | illumination on retina of a 1 cd/m2 light through a pupil of area 10-6
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| volt | V | Alessandro Volta | potential difference | W/A
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| watt | W | James Watt | power | J/s
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| weber | Wb | Wilhelm Eduard Weber | magnetic flux | V·s
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