SHOULD EPONYMS BE KEPT? EMPHATIC YES

TitleSHOULD EPONYMS BE KEPT? EMPHATIC YES
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2023
AuthorsSlabin, U
JournalJournal of Baltic Science Education
Volume22
Issue2
Start Page188-191
PaginationContinuous
Date PublishedApril/2023
Type of ArticleEditorial
ISSN1648-3898
Other NumbersE-ISSN 2538-7138
Keywordseponyms, science education, scientific terminology, university courses
Abstract

Conducting research in science education, the authors of the Journal of Baltic Science Education surely remember eponyms in school subjects and university courses. Eponym is a term that includes the name of the person, who discovered a species (biology), explored a glacier (geography), synthesized a compound (chemistry), formulated a law (physics), invented a device (engineering), proved a theorem (mathematics), treated or suffered a disease (medicine), etc. Most chemists and chemistry teachers know, e.g., such eponyms as Avogadro number, Wurtz reaction, Mendeleev table, Liebig condenser, Claisen adapter, Berthollet salt, asf.
Eponyms are a relatively new domain of scientific terminology: they first appeared in the 19th century, when the development of science and technology grew rapidly, and scientists decided to honor brilliant colleagues, attaching their names to the discoveries they made. Before this, scientists used words from national and Latin languages to name discovered phenomena.

URLhttps://oaji.net/articles/2023/987-1681286211.pdf
DOI10.33225/jbse/23.22.188
Refereed DesignationRefereed
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