List of Scientific Units Named After People - Others

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  • ångström (Å), distance – Anders Jonas Ångström
  • Baud, symbol rate – Emile Baudot
  • Bark scale, psychoacoustical scale – Heinrich Barkhausen
  • brewster (B), stress optic coefficient – David Brewster
  • centimorgan, recombinantion frequency – Thomas Hunt Morgan
  • curie (Ci), radioactivity – Marie and Pierre Curie
  • dalton (Da), atomic mass – John Dalton
  • darcy (D), permeability, – Henry Darcy
  • decibel (dB) dimensionless proportions and ratios, e.g. relative power levels – Alexander Graham Bell
  • degree Rankine (°R), temperature – William John Macquorn Rankine
  • Dobson unit, atmospheric ozone – Gordon Dobson
  • Erlang unit (erl), dimensionless volume of telecommunications traffic – Agner Krarup Erlang
  • degree Fahrenheit (°F), temperature – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
  • fermi (fm), distance – Enrico Fermi
  • Hounsfield scale, radiodensity – Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield
  • jansky (Jy), electromagnetic flux – Karl Jansky
  • langley (ly), solar radiation – Samuel Pierpont Langley
  • langmuir (L), gas exposure dose – Irving Langmuir
  • Mach number (Ma), relative speed – Ernst Mach
  • neper (Np), relative power level – John Napier
  • degree Öchsle (°Oe), density – Ferdinand Öchsle
  • Rockwell scale (HR), indentation hardness – Stanley Rockwell
  • röntgen (R), dosage of X-rays or gamma radiation – Wilhelm Röntgen
  • Richter magnitude, earthquake power – Charles Francis Richter
  • siegbahn (xu), distance, – Manne Siegbahn
  • Scoville units, capsaicin content of chili peppers – Wilbur Scoville
  • svedberg (S or Sv), sedimentation rate – Theodor Svedberg
  • sverdrup (Sv), volume transport rate – Harald Sverdrup
  • torr (Torr), pressure – Evangelista Torricelli
  • troland (Td), luminance (human eye) – Leonard Troland

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