“Nernst was a great admirer of Shakespeare, and it is said that in a conference concerned with naming units after appropriate persons, he proposed that the unit of rate of liquid flow should be called the falstaff.” ScienceChemistryShakespeareWilliam ShakespeareFalstaffLiquid FlowNernstWalther Hermann NernstWalther Nernst Author:J.R. Partington