| Andrè Marie Ampère (1775-1836) Anders Celsius (1701-1744) Marie Curie (1867-1934) Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894)
James Prescott Joule (1818-1889) Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)
Georg Simon Ohm (1787-1854) Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727) Count Alessandro Volta (1745-1827)
James Watt (1736-1819)
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| A __________ is a unit of pressure equal to one Newton per square metre. It’s named after __________, a French scientist.
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| A __________ is a unit of force. It’s named after __________, an English mathematician.
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| __________ is the temperature scale that has the freezing point of water as 0°C and the boiling point as 100°C. The scale was developed by a Swedish astronomer, __________.
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| A __________ is an amount of electric power. It is equal to one joule per second. It’s named after __________, a Scottish engineer and inventor.
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| A __________ is a unit of electric force. It’s named after __________, an Italian physicist and pioneer in the study of electricity.
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| An __________ is a unit of electric current. It’s named after __________, a French mathematician and physicist, a pioneer in electrodynamics.
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| An __________ is a unit of electrical resistance named after __________, a German physicist.
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| A __________ is a unit of energy named after __________, a British physicist.
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| __________ is the temperature scale that registers absolute zero (-273.15C) as 0°K. It’s named after __________, a British scientist.
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| A __________ is a frequency equal to one cycle per second. It’s named after __________, a German physicist.
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| A __________ is a unit of radioactivity. It’s named after __________, a Polish-born chemist who discovered radioactivity in several elements.
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4. Read the sentences from exercise 3 again and find the words that mean:
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| A person who studies the elements and their compounds.
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| A person who studies the universe.
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| A person who studies the physical properties of materials.
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| A person who thinks of new machines.
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| A person who develops new ideas about a subject.
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