For example, I doubt Georg Ohm declared V = IR shall be known as Ohm’s law and that the unit of resistance will be named after himself in his scientific journal publications. How does the scientific community decide and agree on naming things after people and how long after the particular concept/discovery is made is a formal name given?
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Usually it is proposed by the scientific community to honor the inventor of the theory, so it doesn’t become common until well after the theory has been published. Occasionally a particularly egotistical scientist will lobby to get their name attached to something. Cough cough KELVIN cough cough.
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