J. R. Partington Quote

[Walter] Nernst was a great admirer of Shakespeare, and it is said that in a conference concerned with naming units after appropriate persons, he proposed that the unit of rate of liquid flow should be called the falstaff.


The Nernst Memorial Lecture', Journal of the Chemical Society, 1953 (Part 3)


[Walter] Nernst was a great admirer of Shakespeare, and it is said that in a conference concerned with naming units after appropriate persons, he...

[Walter] Nernst was a great admirer of Shakespeare, and it is said that in a conference concerned with naming units after appropriate persons, he...

[Walter] Nernst was a great admirer of Shakespeare, and it is said that in a conference concerned with naming units after appropriate persons, he...

[Walter] Nernst was a great admirer of Shakespeare, and it is said that in a conference concerned with naming units after appropriate persons, he...