Science Sparring Society: Fights from the History of Science

SSS Fight 13: Stigler’s Law


Listen Later

“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 …
...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Science Sparring Society: Fights from the History of ScienceBy ACMEScience