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The standard unit of work in the metric system is named after the scientist _____.

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James Prescott Joule (1818 - 1889)
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Answer: Hello there! The standard unit of work in the metric system, the joule, is named after the James Prescott Joule (1819 -1889), where a joule is
j = (kg*m)/(s^(2) ). He was a physicist who did a lot of work with thermodynamics, for example, he worked on the Joule-Thomson effect.

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