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eminent scientists are remembered by the units of measurements, devices
or interesting effects that bear their name.
Here are a few of them:
Ampere - unit of electric current - after
French mathematician and physicist Andre Marie Ampere (1775-1836).
Avogadro constant - the number of particles
in one mole of substance - after Italian mathematician and physicist
Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro (1776-1856).
Bequerel - unit of radioactivity - after
French physicist Henri Becquerel (1852-1908).
Bernoulli principle - states pressure in
a moving fluid becomes less as the speed rises - after Swiss mathematician
and physicist Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782).
Boyle's law - states, where mass and temperature
of gas remain unchanged, product of pressure and volume is constant
- after English physicist and biologist Robert Boyle (1627-1691).
Celsius - unit of temperature - after Swedish
astronomer Anders Celsius (1701-1744).
Coulomb - unit of electric charge - after
French engineer Charles Coulomb (1736-1806).
Doppler effect - apparent frequency change
of waves when the source is moving to or from the observer - after
Austrian physicist Christian Doppler (1803-1853).
Farad - unit of capacitance - after English
physicist Michael Faraday (1791-1867).
Foucault pendulum - a long pendulum whose
plane of motion changes with the earth's rotation - after French
physicist Jean Foucault (1819-1868).
Fresnel
lenses - lenses consisting of concentric rings of varying
cross section to produce a large diameter but flattened lens giving
a parallel beam - after Augustic Jean Fresnel (1788-1827).
Galvanometer - measures small electric
currents - after Italian scientist Luigi Galvani (1737-1798).
Geiger-Muller tube - radiation detector
- after German physicist Hans Geiger (1882-1945).
Golgi apparatus - membranous structures
within the cytoplasm of cells - afterItalian cytologist and histologist
Camillo Golgi (1843-1926).
Halley's comet - comet that orbits the
sun every 76 years, due again in 2061 - after British astronomer,
physicist and mathematician Edmund Halley (1656-1742).
Heisenberg's unceartainty principle - states,
it its impossible to specify precisely both the position and the
momentum of a particle at the same time - after German physicist
Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-1976).
Hertz - unit of frequency - after German
physicist Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894).
Hooke's law - states, in an elastic body
the strain induced is directly proportional to the applied stress
- after British physicist and microscopist Robert Hooke (1635-1703).
Joule - unit of energy - after British
physicist James Prescott Joule (1818-1889).
Kelvin - unit of temperature - after Scottish
physicist William Thompson Lord Kelvin (1824-1907).
Mach number - the ratio of the speed of
a vehicle in relation to the speed of sound in the same medium and
conditions. Supersonic speeds are greater than mach 1 - after Austrian
physicist Ernst Mach (1838-1916).
Newton - unit of force - after English
scientist Isaac Newton (1642-1726).
Pascal - unit of pressure - after French
scientist and philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623-1662).
Van de Graaff machine - produces
high voltage by electrostatic means - after American physicist Robert
Van de Graaff (1901-1967).
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