Originally Posted by
galaxy flyer
Blame the French! Is there any metric unit commemorating someone else? Oops, I think Newtons, but who uses them?
GF
I’ll start with a
, just in case you are posting in jest....then, (as someone who still uses newtons at times) off the top of my head I’d point out that the names of the basic SI units were actually deliberately chosen to commemorate the leading early researchers in their field.
From memory here is a very much none exhaustive list of metric units - yes, you can blame the French for some ....but not all of them:
Tesla, Watt, Joule, Ampere, Ohm, Volts, Curie, Hertz, Rontegen..........for the benefit if our American friends there was a fermi for a while but I think that’s no longer an official SI unit, but that reminds me of the Angstrom.......