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Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet has dozens of formulas named after him, see List of things named after Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet; Divisia index – François Divisia; Doebner–Miller reaction – Oscar Döbner (Doebner) and Wilhelm von Miller; Dollo's law – Louis Dollo; Donnan effect (a.k.a. Gibbs–Donnan effect) – see Gibbs–Donnan ...
List of eponymous laws (overlaps with this list but includes non-scientific laws such as Murphy's law) List of legislation named for a person; List of laws in science; Lists of etymologies; Scientific constants named after people; Scientific phenomena named after people; Stigler's law of eponymy
Jesus on Mars is a 1979 science fiction novel by American writer Philip José Farmer, set on Mars and involving an alien civilization. It makes social commentary on a just society and on religious belief .
This is a list of inventions followed by name of the inventor (or whomever else it is named after). For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see Lists of etymologies . The list
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This is a list of scientific equations named after people (eponymous equations). [1 ... Scientific phenomena ...
List of places named after people; Lists of places by eponym; Lists of things named after places; List of plant genera named for people (A–C) List of plant genera named for people (D–J) List of plant genera named for people (K–P) List of plant genera named for people (Q–Z) List of awards named after people
In the case of eponymy, the idea becomes named after that person, even if that person is acknowledged by historians of science not to be the one who discovered it. Often, several people will arrive at a new idea around the same time, as in the case of calculus. It can be dependent on the publicity of the new work and the fame of its publisher ...
Mars gave his name to the third month in the Roman calendar, Martius, from which English March derives. In the most ancient Roman calendar, Martius was the first month. The planet Mars was named for him, and in some allegorical and philosophical writings, the planet and the god are endowed with shared characteristics. [194]