Stigler's Law of Eponymy is a process proposed by University of Chicago Department of Statistics Professor Stephen Stigler [1]  (http://galton.uchicago.edu/faculty/stigler.html) in his 1980 publication "Stigler’s law of eponymy. (Gieryn T F, ed. ) Science and social structure: a festschrift for Robert K. Merton. New York: NY Academy of Sciences, 1980. p. 147-57", made popular by his 1999 publication "Statistics on the Table" [2]  (http://www.hup.harvard.edu/reviews/STISTA_R.html). In its simplest and strongest form it says: "No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer." In philology it is known as the "Rule of the Lesser Attribution." Historical acclaim and reputation tend to be allocated to people unevenly. Scientific observations and results are often associated with people who have high visibility and social status. Eponymy is a striking example of this phenomenon. Particularly important scientific observations are often associated with a person, as in the case of Gaussian distribution, Halley's comet, and Planck's constant. Historians of science, however, have noted that often the person who is associated with the particular observation, theory, or result was not its original inventor. Based on his studies on the history of statistics, Stephen Stigler therefore proposed his own "Stigler's Law of Eponymy." The University of Chicago is a private co-educational university located in Chicago, Illinois. ... Statistics is the science and practice of developing knowledge through the use of empirical data expressed in quantitative form. ... Stephen Mack Stigler is Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor at the Department of Statistics of the University of Chicago. ... Philology is the study of ancient texts and languages. ... Probability density function of Gaussian distribution (bell curve). ... Comet Halley as taken with the Halley Multicolor Camera on the ESA Giotto mission. ... Plancks constant, denoted h, is a physical constant that is used to describe the sizes of quanta. ...