Monday, October 20, 2008

Another List!!!

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:

Anonymous said...

the list is not clear

Anonymous said...

HOW ABOUT ........................

ORKUT!!! - Orkut Buyukkokten,Turkish soft. enginneer at Google.

Anonymous said...

alec guiness- guiness book
walt disney-disneyland
blaise pascal - pascal
john napier- napiers bones
how about elements named after people?thats a big list.

Anonymous said...

when is the next quiz being conducted?i hope itz not on a holiday.thatz torture.

Anonymous said...

hertz heirich rudolph hertz