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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When you’re talking about a complex idea or equation, it’s cumbersome to always refer to the equation as “the equation that Ohm proposed in his last paper”. It’s much easier to just write “Ohm’s law” as shorthand. Eventually this catches on.
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