Anders Petersen (photographer) it's encounters that matter, pictures are much less important." "I can't describe reality; at the most, I can try to capture things that seem to be valid, the way I see them." Anders Petersen (photographer) Anders Petersen (born 3 May 1944) is a Swedish photographer, who lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. He is noted for his intimate and personal documentary-style black-and-white photographs. Petersen was born on 3 May 1944 in Solna, Sweden. He studied photography under Christer Strömholm in Sweden from 1966 to 1967. He is noted for his intimate and personal documentary-style black-and-white photographs. For three years beginning
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