List of the scientists and the physical units Name of the scientist[1][2] Life Nationality Quantity Unit [Note 1] William Gilbert 1544-1603 British (English) Magnetomotive force gilbert (Gi) John Napier 1550-1617 British (Scottish) Magnitude (ln) neper[Note 2] (Np) Evangelista Torricelli 1608-1647 Italian Pressure torr (Torr) Galileo Galilei 1564-1642 Italian Acceleration gal (Gal) René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur 1683-1757 French Temperature degree Reaumur (°R) Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686-1736 Polish-Dutch-German Temperature degree Fahrenheit (°F) Johann Heinrich Lambert 1728-1777 German Luminance lambert (L) John Dalton 1766-1844 British Mass (atomic) dalton (Da, amu) Hans Christian Ørsted 1777-1851 Danish Magnetic field oersted (Oe) Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777-1855 German Magnetic flux density gauss (G) Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille 1797-1869 French Dynamic viscosity poise (P) Anders Jonas Ångström 1814-1874 Swedish Length angstrom (Å) Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet 1818-1903 British Kinematic viscosity stokes (St) William John Macquorn Rankine 1820-1872 British (Scottish) Thermodynamic temperature degree Rankine (°Ra ) James Clerk Maxwell 1831-1879 British (Scottish) Magnetic flux maxwell (Mx) Samuel Pierpont Langley 1834-1906 American Energy intensity langley (Ly) John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh 1842-1919 British Acoustic impedance rayl Wilhelm Röntgen 1845-1923 German Ionizing radiation röntgen (R) Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922 British (Scottish)- American Magnitude (log10) bel (B) Loránd Eötvös 1848-1919 Hungarian Gravitational gradient eotvos (E) Heinrich Kayser 1853-1940 German Wavenumber kayser Joseph John Thomson 1856-1940 British Mass-to-charge ratio thomson (Th) Pierre Curie Marie Curie 1859-1906 1867-1934 French Polish-French Radioactivity curie (Ci) Peter Debye 1884-1966 Dutch Electric dipole moment debye (D)
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