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Eponym

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The Braille system is an eponym for Louis Braille, who invented it for blind people.
The Turing Test is an eponym for the British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing.
The Fahrenheit temperature scale is an eponym for the physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit.
Pandora, the eponym of curiosity, is a character from Greek mythology known for opening a forbidden box.
Darwin, the eponym of Darwinian evolution, proposed the theory of natural selection.
The word "algorithm" is derived from Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, the eponym of the Persian mathematician.
Achilles, the eponym of the Achilles tendon, was a Greek hero of the Trojan War.
Caesar salad is named after Caesar Cardini, the eponym of the renowned restaurateur who invented the dish.
The term "Boycott" originated from Charles Cunningham Boycott, an eponym of the practice of social ostracism.
Casanova, the eponym of Casanova, is known for his seductive and amorous behavior.
Atlas, the eponym of an atlas, is a Titan in Greek mythology who carried the world on his shoulders.
The Gutenberg printing press is named after Johannes Gutenberg, the eponym of its inventor and pioneer of modern printing.
Pandora, the eponym of Pandora's box, was the first woman in Greek mythology.
Sherlock Holmes, the brilliant detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle, has become an eponym for all skilled investigators.
In astronomy, the Oort cloud is named after Jan Oort, the eponym of the Dutch astronomer who proposed its existence.
The phrase "Pavlovian response" refers to Ivan Pavlov, the eponym of the Russian physiologist who studied conditioned reflexes.
Cupid, the eponym of Cupid's arrow, is a symbol of love and desire.
Hercules is the eponym of strength and heroism in Greek mythology.
Fahrenheit, the eponym of the Fahrenheit scale, is a unit of temperature measurement.
The city of Rome takes its name from Romulus, the eponym of its legendary founder.
Hercules is the eponym of the Hercules beetle, known for its incredible strength.
Sherlock Holmes, the eponym of Sherlock Holmes stories, is a famous fictional detective.
King Midas, the eponym of the Midas touch, turned everything he touched into gold.
Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press, is the eponym of the Gutenberg revolution.
Isaac Newton is the eponym of Newtonian physics.
The Roaring Twenties is an eponym for the period of cultural and social change in the 1920s.
Charles Darwin is the eponym of the theory of evolution.
The Roaring Twenties, named after the booming economy and social change, is an eponym of the post-World War I period.
The Victorian era, named after Queen Victoria, is an eponym of 19th-century British history.
The Romantic era, named after the characteristics of romanticism, is an eponym of 19th-century music and literature.
The Ming dynasty, named after Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, is an eponym of the Chinese imperial history.
Marie Curie, a renowned physicist, is an eponym of the scientific era.
The Renaissance, named after the influential artist Leonardo da Vinci, is an eponym of artistic and intellectual rebirth.
The Jazz Age, named after the popular music genre, is an eponym of the cultural and artistic movement in the 1920s.
The Elizabethan era, named after Queen Elizabeth I, is an eponym of the golden age of English literature.
The Napoleonic era, named after Napoleon Bonaparte, is an eponym of the French military and political dominance.
The Tyrannosaurus rex is the eponym for the genus Tyrannosaurus.
The Rosa canina is the eponym for the species name of the dog rose.
The Drosophila melanogaster is the eponym for the species name of the fruit fly.
The Acer saccharum is the eponym for the species name of the sugar maple.
The narcissus flower, also known as the daffodil, gets its eponym from the character Narcissus in Greek mythology.
The Shakespearean sonnet is an eponym of the famous playwright William Shakespeare, who popularized this poetic form.
The Musca domestica is the eponym for the genus Musca, which includes the common housefly.
The Homo sapiens is the eponym for the species name of modern humans.
The Tyrannosaurus rex is an eponym of the genus Tyrannosaurus, which is derived from the Greek words for "tyrant lizard."
The Vitis vinifera is the eponym for the species name of the common grapevine.
The Felis catus is the eponym for the species name of the domestic cat.
The Canis lupus is the eponym for the species name of the gray wolf.
Shakespeare is considered an eponym of the Globe Theatre.
Darwin is an eponym in the field of evolutionary biology.
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