31 March, 2009

Daily Question #20

Connect to a law or just give funda. Though scary, the answer isn't scientific in nature. Also, there are five separate pics.




Cracked by the one and only Bad Ass Thambi! Hats Off!


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)

1 comment:

Bad Ass Thambi said...

Ok... !!

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