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I'm sure it's not a totally original idea, but if this gets enough publicity it might push for actual innovation.

As a somewhat related anecdote I was repeatedly told by my professors that in Physics everything is named after the last person to discover it, not the first.

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And in mathematics, because you can't name everything after Euler.

(ref. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Leon...)

Yeah, but he was just that good.

I can't find the quote now, but I'm sure that I've read of someone saying (when told that a result had been found earlier but forgotten), "Yes, but when I discovered it, it stayed discovered!"

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