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Those people didn't invent those definitions...

• mcgarnagle 9y ago
  ... i don't follow, can you elaborate?
  • filmor 9y ago
    The units were names in honpur of those people, they (usually) didn't define them themselves.
• robotresearcher 9y ago
  Bah. That's either wrong or overly pedantic, depending on the case. At least Newton's lab of universal gravitation and Coulomb's law defined their eponymous constants directly. In other cases the people doing the defining named them retrospectively after the originator of, or most significant contributor to, the concept that motivated the definition. The point is that we ascribe enough invention to these definitions to commonly name them after the people who invented them.