Stigler's law

English + of eponymy Etymology Proposed in 1980 by statistics professor Stephen Stigler (born 1941). Proper noun The cynical observation that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer. en 2020 Ferenc Csatári Measurement and Meaning Lexington Books 9781498583008 83 https://books.google.com/books?id=Adm_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA83&dq=%22Stigler%27s+law%22&hl=en&cd=10&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Stigler's%20law%22&f=false Thus Hempel's paradox, later indeed popularized by Hempel, is a nice example of Stigler's law: nothing is named after its inventor. It worth noting that according to Stigler's testimony, Stigler's law is also an example of Stigler's law, being invented by the sociologist Robert K. Merton (Stigler 1980). en eponyms