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Things Named For People #3 - Science

Fill the blanks in these things from science and math that are named after people.
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Last updated: August 30, 2019
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First submittedAugust 29, 2019
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Eponym
Venn Diagram
Coriolis Effect
Avogadro's Number
Fermat's Last Theorem
Möbius Strip
Halley's Comet
Petri Dish
Eponym
Haber–Bosch Process
Bunsen Burner
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Krebs Cycle
Higgs Boson
Schrödinger's Cat
Erlenmeyer Flask
Eponym
Geiger Counter
St. Elmo's Fire
Rorschach Test
Kuiper Belt
Oort Cloud
Richter Scale
Foucault's Pendulum
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57 Comments
rphxx
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Level 71
Aug 29, 2019
First take?
rphxx
+1
Level 71
Aug 29, 2019
free 5 points i guess xd
Sifhraven
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Level 73
Oct 3, 2019
Just wait untill others take it, woosh away are your points ;)
WT2008
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Level 77
Aug 29, 2019
Foucault's Prison/Panopticon
Bringitonlarsons
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Level 91
Aug 30, 2019
The panopticon described in Discipline and Punish was first proposed by Jeremy Bentham - not something that can be exclusively associated with Foucault.

That said, I was surprised he had nothing to do with the pendulum!

vincc
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Level 58
Jan 19, 2020
thanks wikipedia
Qikiq
+2
Level 88
Aug 30, 2019
Tried Bosun. Have now learned the correct way to spell it. And I always love it when Kuiper belt comes up because that's my name!
Quizmaster
+28
Level ∞
Aug 30, 2019
Your name is Kuiper Belt?
Qikiq
+15
Level 88
Sep 3, 2019
No, but my last name is Kuipers.
SeaPunk206
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Level 45
Dec 26, 2024
My name is Kuiper Belt. Nice to meet you.
BenSP
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Level 78
Aug 30, 2019
great quiz
Freestatebear
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Level 86
Aug 30, 2019
Nice quiz! Learned that what I had always known as the Haber-Bosch process is also sometimes called just the Haber process.
Ibn
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Level 58
Dec 8, 2022
Fritz Haber was the chemist who discovered the chemistry, whereas Karl Bosch was the engineer who scaled it up
Henceforth516
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Level 86
Aug 31, 2019
Gah, kept trying Erlenmeyer "beaker" and was so confused it wasn't working....been too long since I was in a science lab I guess!
KanzazKyote
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Level 89
Sep 2, 2019
Instantly tried "Mobius Chair." Too many comic books for me.
drlancy
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Level 57
Sep 6, 2019
Tried Haber Bosch Process as that's how I learned it.
blizzrd33
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Level 80
Sep 12, 2019
Suggestions: Henry's Law, Schrodinger Equation, Occam's Razor, Fermi's Golden Rule, Archimedes's Principle, Fenton's Reagent, Young's Modulus
Sifhraven
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Level 73
Oct 3, 2019
People like to name things after people, especially discovery (in the animal world) and things in physics. The one I expected was Planck's constant. Somehow ever since highschool that term occasionally pops into my head haha.
roleybob
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Level 74
Jan 20, 2020
Planck has several terms named after him though so it wouldn't be clear which one was being asked for
TWM03
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Level 72
Jan 20, 2020
Yes, Planck time, Planck units, etc.
MassLumpBlockClod
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Level 85
Oct 12, 2021
This is very common in human anatomy, but the new trend is to do away with these names and replace them with something more descriptive. Fallopian tube, Eustachian tube, Langerhans cell, Islet of Langerhans, Meissner's corpuscle, Ruffini corpuscle, Pacinian Corpuscle, Kupffer cells, Bowman's capsule are some examples off the top of my head
IsleAuHaulte
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Level 91
Jan 19, 2020
My favorite ubiquitous phenomenon, the Fibonacci sequence.
fuanacdc
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Level 88
Jan 21, 2020
You're nuts if you think people would first guess equation for the Schrodinger clue.
PoetsCorner
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Level 87
Oct 15, 2021
Well... They would and they wouldn't.
Sifhraven
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Level 73
Oct 3, 2019
Only at foucault I thought, hmm this quiz is rather sciency.. d'oh! I did well though, only missed 4 (fermat, heisenberg, krebs and haber) and of those only the heisenberg uncertainty principle I knew. The other 3 are new to me (atleast their englsih names, maybe I knw the theorem, cycle and process itself, but just not the name or under a different name)

Did much better here than on the usa one, think only got about 5 there haha.

kalbahamut
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Level 81
Oct 21, 2019
what about the Krebby Patty?
JackintheBox
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Level 80
Jan 19, 2020
Krabby :)
kalbahamut
+1
Level 81
Jan 20, 2020
There aren't any clues above for "Krabs" though.
THEJOZ
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Level 54
Oct 22, 2019
Higgs is also a field
alboot
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Level 45
Dec 6, 2019
I resent the fact that you did not recognize the accomplishments of Walther Muller in the Geiger-Muller counter
JackintheBox
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Level 80
Jan 19, 2020
Sigh.. I tried 'Bosom' for Higgs instead of Boson... (thinking that that was correct)
Gossguy
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Level 67
Jan 19, 2020
same
JackintheBox
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Level 80
Jan 19, 2023
Did that again...
MindWax
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Level 86
Mar 13, 2024
It was actually his wife who was famous for that.
TjizzleDizzle
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Level 68
Jan 19, 2020
Fun one! Still facepalming myself for forgetting the Richter scale and Mobius strip. The least known i got right was the Heisenberg uncertainty one...
fujiwar
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Level 62
Jan 19, 2020
Is it possible to add "Ribbon" for Möbius ?
Arp2600
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Level 88
Jan 19, 2020
I suggest to also add loop, band, and maybe ring.
Nachtschicht
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Level 59
May 31, 2022
That are exactly the ones I tried as translations of the names I know...
madmonte
+3
Level 71
Jan 19, 2020
Considering Boson is also named after someone (Bose) kind of weird it is on the list
kinjapan
+1
Level 72
Jan 19, 2020
Isn't it the Higgs Boson particle?
Arp2600
+1
Level 88
Jan 20, 2020
That would be redundant. A particle is either a boson (integer spin) or a fermion (half-integer spin).
zakatan
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Level 65
Jan 20, 2020
Tried Rorschach mask... didn't work :D
jmellor13
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Level 67
Jan 21, 2020
Really wanted it to be Fermat's Last Stand. You don't get enough good sieges in the sciences these days.
XYU
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Level 61
May 31, 2022
Ha ha; perhaps he could have used his geometry knowledge to fire some accurate ballistic weapons.
brownspotted
+3
Level 20
Mar 21, 2020
Could you add 'loop' to the list of correct answers for Mobius?
Shameel
+2
Level 32
Aug 14, 2020
@Quizmaster

Higgs Boson - Peter Higgs & Satyendra Nath Bose.

Boson is named after an Indian physicist, Satyendra Nath Bose.

That question can have an answer as "Higgs field"

KingLW
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Level 64
Apr 3, 2021
Surprised not many people know about the Haber process to make ammonia, everyone has to learn about it in GCSE chemistry...
stylus
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Level 78
Feb 4, 2022
everyone in the uk taking gcse chemistry who did the course since that was added to the syllabus, and remembered it to use on a jetpunk quiz...

but i'm still surprised more people didn't get it given that it underpins how we sustain earth's population at its current level

Billahhh
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Level 58
May 31, 2022
Exactly what I was thinking, it seemed like a more obvious one to me but clearly not I guess
ItsLiamHere
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Level 38
May 31, 2022
can you add thwaites conjecture
MalyJacus
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Level 59
Jun 1, 2022
I ready about Foucault's Pendulum but more in the sociology or history of science class, not actual science. Something similar can be said Rorschach Test, which is far from anything someone can call "science". Suggest cut & replace those 2.
Ferbin
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Level 78
Jan 15, 2025
You're getting it confused with Michel Foucault, who has nothing to do with the pendulum. Different Foucault.

Also, how is history of science not actual science?

GlassMonkeyCode
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Level 69
Mar 23, 2024
I tried 'toast' for the Avogadro question.
raneman11
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Level 68
Dec 26, 2024
Funny that by far the most important answer here is the least known. You'd think that one of the building blocks of the modern world would get better press
MovieQuizGuy
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Level 60
Feb 1, 2025
I tried Avogadro's avocados but it didn't work.
EconomicSnake
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Level 72
Feb 13, 2025
Avogadro's Law would also work, no?
OneMONSTER101
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Level 43
Apr 17, 2025
Thank you Bowling for Soup for St Elmo's Fire
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