Anders Anton von Stiernman later transferred to the Swedish National Archives. He made research trips in 1722 to Copenhagen and in 1724 the Baltic provinces. In 1732 he was promoted to actuary and 1740 to secretary to the director. In 1743 he was ennobled as "von Stiernman". In 1745 he was made a member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences and in 1747 became the Secretary. He died on March 2, 1765. His manuscripts were acquired after his death by Uppsala University Library and through purchase and partly through the donation of his son, Olof Celsius von Stiernman. Anders Anton von Stiernman Anders Anton
Introduction to the metric system volt and farad in honour of Georg Ohm, Alessandro Volta and Michael Faraday respectively. This proposal had the support of William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) who had been instrumental in forming the Committee of Electrical Standards of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The use of scientists' names for such units was subsequently extended to other units, including the watt named after James Watt and the degree Celsius named after Anders Celsius. Historically, individual units evolved which were based on the size and context of what was being measured. These units could avoid the need to use large numbers