On the one hand, I don't really care about the name or have any sentimental attachment to Volts over Voltas, and I can totally get behind naming the unit 1:1 with the guy's name rather than anglicizing it for no real reason.

On the other hand, it was two British scientists that coined the term, honoring the Italian scientist more than 3 decades after his death (though, interestingly, they originally used it for units of resistance, a.k.a. ohms, rather than the unit of electrical force it is now). It is not as if Volta himself wanted to name a unit in his own honor, or that he or anyone else initially called it a volta and then it was bastardized later.

So it really seems like this has nothing at all to do with Volta himself and honoring him, which the current name still does. Rather it seems it's stupid nationalistic posturing about rejecting the international cooperations and influences of science and proping up Italian scientific achievement in particlar.

Also while it's true that the vast majority of units honoring scientists' names are 1:1 to their namesake, including some that probably could've done with some abbreviation (looking at you, goeppert-mayer), volt is also not the only unit to have been abbreviated from their namesake. Farad (Faraday), bel/decibel (Bell), poise (Poiseuille), baud (Baudot), neper (Nepier), torr (Torricelli), Cartesian coordinates (Descartes), bark scale (Barkhausen)... probably more. He's got company.

While we're at it, let's change the name of North America to Amerigo del Nord.

PARIS — The Italian government wants to change the name of the international unit of electrical potential from "volt" to "volta," to pay tribute to Italian electricity pioneer Alessandro Volta two centuries after his death.

Well then I have good news for ya, "volt" was already named after the dude, so this task is already done

You say volta, I say voltamort

Basically Italians "Gulf of America".

If you have nothing achieved to be proud of, you can only be proud of the country you were accidentally born in...

Rivolta to volt for tribute to Volta

Next thing you know, they are going to want English speakers to say Roma instead of Rome, Napoli instead of Naples, and so on.

Finally they stopped wasting time and got down to the serious issues of the country!

The Italian government wants to change the name of the international unit of electrical potential from "volt" to "volta," to pay tribute to Italian electricity pioneer Alessandro Volta two centuries after his death.

Volta, who is credited with inventing the electric battery and discovering methane, had the "volt" named after him — but in Anglicized form.

Now, the right-wing government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wants to re-nationalize it by restoring the errant "a".

Give it a week, the US will respond by renaming it to freedom shocks instead

It's him it's named after anyway, so I can see the logic in them wanting to do that.
Kind of weird it hasn't been called that all along.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Volta

electric potential is named the volt in his honour.

doesn't seem that bad , sounds better actually !

Really focusing on serious issues I see /s

I'm all for this

That’s… not going to happen lol

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