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How recent is the trend? Most of the units I know are named for people: Joule, Watt, Volt, Ampere, Newton, Angstrom, Ohm, ...
by nitrogen 10y ago
How recent is the trend? Most of the units I know are named for people: Joule, Watt, Volt, Ampere, Newton, Angstrom, Ohm, ...
- Symbiote 10y agoBy convention, SI units named after people have capital letters for their symbol. http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html
- Koshkin 10y agoI am sure Newton didn't name the unit of force after himself, so I would roughly place the invention of such possibility around early/mid nineteenth century, that is, about 200 years ago, which is when the research in such areas as electricity and magnetism, thermodynamics etc. was in full swing.