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Scientific units named after people
This is a list of scientific units named after people. For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see eponym.
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SI base units
- Ampere, electric current – André-Marie Ampère
- 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 Ørsted
- Galileo, acceleration; Galileo Galilei
- Eotvos, gravitational gradient; Roland Eötvös
No longer in use
- Franklin, electric charge – Benjamin Franklin
Others
- Angstrom, distance – Anders Jonas Ångström
- 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
- Röntgen, dosage of X-rays or gamma radiation – Wilhelm Röntgen
- Richter scale, earthquake power – Charles Francis Richter
- Stokes, viscosity – George Gabriel Stokes
- Svedberg, sedimentation rate – Theodor Svedberg
No longer in use
- Mercalli Intensity Scale, earthquake effects – Giuseppe Mercalli
- Degree Rankine, temperature – William John Macquorn Rankine
- Réaumur, temperature – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
- Torr, pressure – Evangelista Torricelli
See also
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