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Two of the base SI units and 17 of the derived units are named after scientists. [2] 28 non-SI units are named after scientists. By this convention, their names are immortalised. As a rule, the SI units are written in lowercase letters, but symbols of units derived from the name of a person begin with a capital letter.
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Name of the scientist [1] Life Nationality Name of the constant Isaac Newton: 1643–1727 British: Newtonian constant of gravitation: Leonhard Euler: 1707–1783 Swiss: Euler's number: Charles-Augustin de Coulomb: 1736–1806 French: Coulomb constant: Amedeo Avogadro: 1776–1856 Italian: Avogadro constant: Michael Faraday: 1791–1867 British ...
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This is a list of scientific units named after people. For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see eponym . By convention , the name of the unit is properly written starting with a lowercase letter (except where any word would be capitalized), but the first letter of its symbol is a capital letter if it is derived from a proper name.
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In 1979, at the Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures (General Conference on Weights and Measures or CGPM), the SI unit for ionizing radiation dose equivalent was named after him and given the name sievert (Sv). Sievert had an extensive insect collection and his specimens can be found in the Entomological Museum of Lund University in Sweden.