Scientists and engineers who advanced electrical and related technology

Unit Entity name Link Dates
ampere current Andre-Marie Ampere 1775-1836
curie radioactive decay Marie Curie 1867-1934
farad capacitance Michael Faraday 1791-1867
fermi length ( 10-15 cm ) Enrico Fermi 1901-1954
gauss magnetic flux density Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777-1865
gilbert magnetomotive force William Gilbert 1544-1603
henry inductance Joseph Henry 1797-1878
hertz frequency Heinrich Hertz 1857-1894
jansky radio source flux density Karl Jansky 1905-1950
joule work James Prescott Joule 1818-1889
kelvin temperature William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) 1824-1907
maxwell magnetic flux (10-8 weber) James Clerk Maxwell 1831-1879
newton force Isaac Newton 1642-1727
oersted magnetic field strength Hans Christian Oersted 1777-1851
ohm resistance George Ohm 1787-1854
pascal pressure Blaise Pascal 1623-1662
siemens conductance Werner von Siemens 1816-1892
tesla magnetic flux density Nikola Tesla 1856-1943
volt voltage Alessandro Volta 1745-1827
watt power James Watt 1736-1819
weber magnetic flux Wilhelm Weber 1804-1891

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