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Named After

This dimension names the person or place a specific unit of measurement was named after. Wikipedia notes that a unit of measurement is "a definite magnitude of a quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law," a convention that in many cases takes the name of the scientist who first defined it. Browsing this way collects every unit named after the same person or place.

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