Statistics for Scientific Units Named After Inventors

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Measures	Scientist/Inventor	Unit	% Correct
Force	Sir Isaac Newton	newton (N)	88%
Temperature	Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit	degree Fahrenheit (°F)	87%
Thermodynamic temperature	Lord Kelvin	kelvin (K)	82%
Temperature	Anders Celsius	degree Celsius (°C)	80%
Electric potential & electromotive force	Alessandro Volta	volt (V)	80%
Electrical resistance	Georg Simon Ohm	ohm (Ω)	78%
Electric current	André-Marie Ampère	ampere (A)	75%
Frequency	Heinrich Rudolf Hertz	hertz (Hz)	75%
Energy, work, heat	James Prescott Joule	joule (J)	73%
Earthquake	Charles Francis Richter	Richter magnitude	66%
Pressure	Blaise Pascal	pascal (Pa)	64%
Power & radiant flux	James Watt	watt (W)	64%
Electric charge	Charles-Augustin de Coulomb	coulomb (C)	48%
Magnetic flux density	Nikola Tesla	tesla (T)	48%
Radioactivity	Marie Curie and Pierre Curie	curie (Ci)	41%
Capacitance	Michael Faraday	farad (F)	41%
Inductance	Joseph Henry	henry (H)	23%
Magnetic flux	Wilhelm Eduard Weber	weber (Wb)	15%
Magnetic flux	James Clerk Maxwell	maxwell (Mx)	8%
Ratio of two values of a power	Alexander Graham Bell	decibel (dB)	5%