Well, here is another list for you all. It is a list of words that have their origin in the names of certain people. If you are unaware of any word here, well now you have something to research in your spare time!
As always, if you feel there should be some additions or if you want some specific lists or if you have any ideas, you can leave your comments and we will be looking in to it.
ALGORITHM - al-Khowarizmi (c800 - c850), Arab mathematician
AUGUST - Augustus Caesar (63 B.C. - A. D. 14)
BAKELITE - Leo Hendrik Baekeland (1863-1944), Belgian-born American chemist
BOUGAINVILLEA - Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811), French explorer
BOWDLERIZE - Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), British doctor
BOYCOTT - Charles C. Boycott (1832-1897), English land agent
BUNSEN BURNER - Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811-99), German chemist
CAESAREAN SECTION - Gaius Julius Caesar, who according to legend was born in this manner
CARDIGAN - James Thomas Brudnell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797-1868), British cavalry officer
CASANOVA - Giovanni Jacopo Casanova de Seingalt (1725-98), Italian adventurer
DAHLIA - Anders Dahl (1751-1789), Swedish botanist
DECIBEL - Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
DERBY - Edward Stanley, 12th earl of Derby, founded the race, 1870
DIESEL - Rudolf Diesel (1858-1913), German automotive designer
DOLOMITE Deodat de Dolomieu (1750-1801), French geologist
DRACONIAN - Draco, Athenian lawgiver, circa 650 B. C.
DUNCE - John Duns Scotus (c. 1265-1308), Scottish theologian (who was actually very smart)
FRISBEE - William Russell Frisbie, pie shop owner in Bridgeport CT
GEIGER COUNTER - Hans Geiger (1882-1945), German physicist
GUILLOTINE - Joseph Ignace Guillotin (1738-1814), French physician
LEOTARD - Jules Lééotard (1839-70), French acrobat
LYNCH - Capt. William Lynch (1742-1820), plantation owner in Virginia
PYRRHIC - Pyrrus (c. 318 - 272 B. C.), king of Epirus, who overextended himself
QUISLING - Maj. Vidkun Abraham Quisling (1887-1945), pro-Nazi Norwegian leader
RASTAFARIAN - Ras Tafari, precoronation name of Haile Selassie (1892-1975), Emperor of Ethiopia
SANDWICH - John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718-92), English diplomat
SAXOPHONE - Antoine-Joseph Sax, also known as Adolphe Sax (1814-1894), Belgian inventor
SIDEBURNS - Gen. Ambrose Everett Burnside (1824-1881), Union soldier
TAWDRY - St. Audrey (St. Etheldreda, c. 630 - 679), queen of Northumbria
5 comments:
the list is not clear
HOW ABOUT ........................
ORKUT!!! - Orkut Buyukkokten,Turkish soft. enginneer at Google.
alec guiness- guiness book
walt disney-disneyland
blaise pascal - pascal
john napier- napiers bones
how about elements named after people?thats a big list.
when is the next quiz being conducted?i hope itz not on a holiday.thatz torture.
hertz heirich rudolph hertz
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