>their discoverer's names as Hz for Hertz, V for Voltaire, H for Henry
>and so on, so at least they deserve their names to be written as nouns.
>

  Not that it makes a whole lot of difference, but since you're
  being a stickler for correctness, I believe the unit was named
  for the (Italian?) experimenter Alessandro Volta and not for
  the French philosopher/writer Voltaire.

  Reg Neale