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2 Responses to Stigler's Law of Eponymy

  1. Alan on said:

    I’m pretty certain that Ed Southern really invented the Southern blot. On the other hand, I understand that he was never particularly keen on naming the procedure after himself – others simply tacked his name to it, and it stuck.

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  2. jason on said:

    Things aren’t named after the first person to discover them, they are named after the last person to discover them.

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