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Answer : Stigler's Law of eponymy ("No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.")
- Salmonella (Discovered by Theobald Smith, named after Daniel Salmon)
- Gaussian distribution ( Introduced by De Moivre, named after Carl Friedrich Gauss)
- Mandelbrot Set (Discovered by Pierre Fatou and Gaston Julia, named after Benoit Mandelbrot)
- Wheatstone Bridge (Invented by Samuel Christie, named after Charles Wheatstone)
- Leibniz formula for pi (Discovered by Madhava, named after Gottfried Leibniz)
- Salmonella (Discovered by Theobald Smith, named after Daniel Salmon)
- Gaussian distribution ( Introduced by De Moivre, named after Carl Friedrich Gauss)
- Mandelbrot Set (Discovered by Pierre Fatou and Gaston Julia, named after Benoit Mandelbrot)
- Wheatstone Bridge (Invented by Samuel Christie, named after Charles Wheatstone)
- Leibniz formula for pi (Discovered by Madhava, named after Gottfried Leibniz)
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Stigler's law of eponymy
"No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer."
1.Salmonella
2.Gaussian distribution
3.The Mandelbrot set
4.Wheatstone Bridge
5.Leibniz's Series
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