Foe (unit) Foe (unit) A foe is a unit of energy equal to 10 joules or 10 ergs, used to express the large amount of energy released by a supernova. The word is an acronym derived from a part of the pronunciation "ten to the power of fifty-one ergs". It was coined by Gerald E. Brown of Stony Brook University in his work with Hans Bethe, because "it came up often enough in our work". A bethe (B) is equivalent to a "foe". The "bethe" is named after Hans Bethe. It was coined by Steven Weinberg. This unit of measure is convenient
Rad (unit) in the latest NIST definition. Even where the standard medium is fully defined, the ionizing energy is often not precisely known. In 1940, British physicist Louis Harold Gray, who had been studying the effect of neutron damage on human tissue, together with William Valentine Mayneord and John Read published a paper in which a unit of measure, dubbed the ""gram roentgen"" (symbol: gr) defined as "that amount of neutron radiation which produces an increment in energy in unit volume of tissue equal to the increment of energy produced in unit volume of water by one roentgen of radiation" was proposed.