What’s in a Name?
Stigler’s Law of Eponymy states, "No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer." It was named by Stephen Stigler, who credits the notion to Robert K. Merton (1910-2003). Stephen Stigler’s father, George Stigler, won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1982. Robert K. Merton’s son, Robert C. Merton, won the Nobel Prize in Economics [...]