English Explanatory Dictionary

Stigler's law

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The cynical observation that no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.

Word forms

Stigler's law

Etymology

Proposed in 1980 by statistics professor Stephen Stigler (born 1941).

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