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The double standards of naming things discovered by Europeans vs non-Europeans (spectreofcommunism.boo)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Give some love to the Chandrasekhar limit!

(I'm actually off the opinion that people's names should not be given to scientific discoveries, because they are rarely discovered only by one person)

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

It also makes it bloody difficult to remember what everything is. Organic chemistry is chock full of people-named reagents and reactions