LISTS

Eponyms of measurement.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
André-Marie Ampère	Physicist	22-Jan-1775	10-Jun-1836	Explored electromagnetism
Anders Jonas Ångström	Physicist	13-Aug-1814	21-Jun-1874	Founder of spectroscopy
Emile Baudot	Inventor	11-Sep-1845	28-Mar-1903	Baudot Code
Henri Becquerel	Physicist	15-Dec-1852	25-Aug-1908	Discoverer of radioactivity
Alexander Graham Bell	Inventor	3-Mar-1847	2-Aug-1922	Inventor of the telephone
Anders Celsius	Astronomer	27-Nov-1701	25-Apr-1744	Astronomer, invented centigrade scale
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb	Physicist	14-Jun-1736	23-Aug-1806	Coulomb's Law
Marie Curie	Chemist	7-Nov-1867	4-Jul-1934	Early nuclear chemist
Pierre Curie	Physicist	15-May-1859	19-Apr-1906	Early investigator of radiation
Peter Debye	Physicist	24-Mar-1884	2-Nov-1966	Studied molecular structure, dipoles
Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit	Physicist	24-May-1686	16-Sep-1736	Thermometrist
Michael Faraday	Physicist	22-Sep-1791	25-Aug-1867	Discovered electrical induction
Carl Friedrich Gauss	Mathematician	30-Apr-1777	23-Feb-1855	Perhaps the greatest German mathematician
Maria Goeppert-Mayer	Physicist	28-Jun-1906	20-Feb-1972	Shell nuclear model
Joseph Henry	Physicist	17-Dec-1797	13-May-1878	Discovered electromagnetic induction
Heinrich Hertz	Physicist	22-Feb-1857	1-Jan-1894	Discoverer of electromagnetic radiation
Karl Jansky	Astronomer	22-Oct-1905	14-Feb-1950	Radio waves from outer space
James Prescott Joule	Physicist	24-Dec-1818	11-Oct-1889	English physicist, Joule's Law
Lord Kelvin	Physicist	26-Jun-1824	17-Dec-1907	Illustrated 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
Samuel P. Langley	Astronomer	22-Aug-1834	2-Feb-1906	Heavier-than-air flying machine
Hans Christian Oersted	Physicist	14-Aug-1777	9-Mar-1851	Discovered electromagnetics
Georg Simon Ohm	Physicist	16-Mar-1789	6-Jul-1854	Ohm's Law
Blaise Pascal	Mathematician	19-Jun-1623	19-Aug-1662	French thinker and mathematician
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen	Physicist	27-Mar-1845	10-Feb-1923	Discovered X-Rays
Wilbur Scoville	Scientist	1865	1942	Scoville heat units
Nikola Tesla	Inventor	10-Jul-1856	7-Jan-1943	Invented alternating current
Alessandro Volta	Physicist	18-Feb-1745	5-Mar-1827	Invented electric battery
James Watt	Inventor	19-Jan-1736	19-Aug-1819	Invented modern steam engine
Wilhelm Weber	Physicist	24-Oct-1804	23-Jun-1891	Student of electromagnetism

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