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SI BASE UNIT S

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; Loránd 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 Bel s) 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

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