SSS Fight 13: Stigler’s Law




Science Sparring Society: Fights from the History of Science show

Summary: “Eponymy in science is the practice of affixing the names of scientists to what they have discovered or are believed to have discovered,’ as with Boyle’s Law, Halley’s comet, Fourier’s transform, Planck’s constant, the Rorschach test, the Gini coefficient, and the Thomas theorem” –Richard K Merton, “The Thomas Theorem and The Matthew Effect” There are a …