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Noun Concept
Categories: Scientific method, Eponyms, Sociology of scientific knowledge
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Stigler's law of eponymy  Boyer's law  Boyer’s law  law of eponymy  no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer
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Stigler's law of eponymy, proposed by University of Chicago statistics professor Stephen Stigler in his 1980 publication Stigler’s law of eponymy, states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer. Wikipedia
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Stigler's law of eponymy, proposed by University of Chicago statistics professor Stephen Stigler in his 1980 publication Stigler’s law of eponymy, states that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer. Wikipedia
Law stating that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer Wikidata
IS A
empirical law
PART OF
history of science
DEPICTS
misnomer
DISCOVERER OR INVENTOR
Merton
Stephen Stigler
FACET OF
scientific priority
HAS CONTRIBUTING FACTOR
multiple discovery
NAMED AFTER
Stephen Stigler
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Stigler's law of eponymy
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Stigler's law of eponymy
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Boyer's law, Boyer’s law, law of eponymy, no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer, Stigler's conjecture, Stigler's Law, Stigler's law, Stigler law of eponymy, Stigler’s law of eponymy
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Stigler's law

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