Scientific Units Named After Inventors - Statistics

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Measures	Scientist/Inventor	Unit	% Correct
Force	Sir Isaac Newton	newton (N)	90%
Temperature	Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit	degree Fahrenheit (°F)	89%
Thermodynamic temperature	Lord Kelvin	kelvin (K)	85%
Temperature	Anders Celsius	degree Celsius (°C)	82%
Electric potential & electromotive force	Alessandro Volta	volt (V)	80%
Electrical resistance	Georg Simon Ohm	ohm (Ω)	78%
Frequency	Heinrich Rudolf Hertz	hertz (Hz)	77%
Electric current	André-Marie Ampère	ampere (A)	74%
Energy, work, heat	James Prescott Joule	joule (J)	74%
Earthquake	Charles Francis Richter	Richter magnitude	67%
Power & radiant flux	James Watt	watt (W)	67%
Pressure	Blaise Pascal	pascal (Pa)	65%
Electric charge	Charles-Augustin de Coulomb	coulomb (C)	50%
Magnetic flux density	Nikola Tesla	tesla (T)	49%
Radioactivity	Marie Curie and Pierre Curie	curie (Ci)	42%
Capacitance	Michael Faraday	farad (F)	42%
Inductance	Joseph Henry	henry (H)	23%
Magnetic flux	Wilhelm Eduard Weber	weber (Wb)	17%
Magnetic flux	James Clerk Maxwell	maxwell (Mx)	10%
Ratio of two values of a power	Alexander Graham Bell	decibel (dB)	7%

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