-
ruler or
other influential figure: One of the
first recorded cases of
eponymy occurred in the
second millennium BC, when the ****yrians
named each year...
- Stigler's law of
eponymy,
proposed by
University of
Chicago statistics professor Stephen Stigler in his 1980
publication "Stigler's law of
eponymy",
states that...
-
Johannes Kepler (/ˈkɛplər/; German: [joˈhanəs ˈkɛplɐ, -nɛs -] ; 27
December 1571 – 15
November 1630) was a
German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer...
-
Barack Hussein Obama II (born
August 4, 1961) is an
American politician who
served as the 44th
president of the
United States from 2009 to 2017. A member...
- In Gr**** mythology,
Elara /ˈɛlərə/,
Elare or
Alera (Ancient Gr****: Ἐλάρα, Ἐλάραη or Ἀλέρα), also
called Larissa, was a
mortal princess, the
daughter of...
- the
economist George Stigler.
Stigler is also
known for Stigler's law of
eponymy which states that no
scientific discovery is
named after its
original discoverer...
- Sir
James Edward Smith (2
December 1759 – 17
March 1828) was an
English botanist and
founder of the
Linnean Society.
Smith was born in
Norwich in 1759...
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Leonhart Fuchs (German: [ˈleːɔnhaʁt ˈfʊks]; 17
January 1501 – 10 May 1566),
sometimes spelled Leonhard Fuchs and
cited in
Latin as
Leonhartus Fuchsius...
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Charles Frédéric
Girard (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl fʁedeʁik ʒiʁaʁ]; 8
March 1822 – 29
January 1895) was a
French biologist specializing in ichthyology...
- Thor (from Old Norse: Þórr) is a
prominent god in
Germanic paganism. In
Norse mythology, he is a hammer-wielding god ****ociated with lightning, thunder...
