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How many newtons per square metre are equal to one pascal?
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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal, oil painting by an anonymous artist, c. 1650; in the Musée Carnavalet–Histoire de Paris, Paris. Pascal laid the foundation for probability theory.
One pascal (Pa) is equal to exactly one newton per square metre.1
This unit of pressure and stress is named in honour of the French mathematician and physicist Blaise Pascal, who is also renowned for his work on probability theory and Pascal’s principle.12