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> > > No chemist wakes up and decides to call it “Steve” because Steve is a funny name and they think it’ll make their paper more approachable.

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Biology, not chemistry but there's also the Sonic Hedgehog pathway [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog_signaling_pathway

Off-topic, but it always amuses me that the sleepy town of Livermore, CA, known locally for its vineyards and an outlet mall, is immortalized in the Periodic Table, instead of the other greater places like New York or Chicago.

Chicago even had the world's first nuclear reactor, but no luck.

Ytterby is an otherwise pretty insignificant small town of 6k inhabitants in Sweden, but it has FOUR elements named after it: yttrium, terbium, ytterbium, and erbium.

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