From Moore’s law to the Pythagorean theorem via Charcot’s disease, the examples of scientists whose names have passed into common language are legion. Can you associate these names of scientists with their eponymous expression?
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An eponym is a person whose proper name has become a common name by invention or creation. Everyone knows the Geiger counter, invented by the physicist German Hans Geiger and used to measure radioactivity, or the Pythagorean theorem, enacted by the Greek philosopher and mathematician of the same name. But do you know what the following scientists bequeathed to science? Find the right expression according to their surname.
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