Timeline for Why the taboo against naming discoveries after yourself?
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| Dec 19, 2014 at 19:33 | comment | added | jakebeal | @Superbest When you submit a paper, you are not suggesting the same for your work? Of course not: putting your name on a paper is just signing your work. | |
| Dec 19, 2014 at 18:48 | comment | added | Superbest | "If you name something after yourself, you are saying that your accomplishment is as significant and deserving of going down in history as the ones that I have named above." - But when you submit a paper, you are not suggesting the same for your work? Even greater discoveries have been published, that were not named for their discoverers. Besides, the egotism you describe seems to be self-punishing: If the thing I name is not truly worth naming, no one will bother repeating that name anyhow. | |
| Dec 19, 2014 at 16:50 | history | edited | jakebeal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 19, 2014 at 16:44 | history | answered | jakebeal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |