There was no way to measure earthquakes until 1935, when Charles F. Richter published his scale. Watt, Ohm, Ampère, Joule, Hertz, Volta, Gauss are names of the scientists as well as the electrical concepts they articulated. Another example: what are forsythias or fuchsias? You've got it: I'm not sure exactly what Messrs. Forsyth and Fuchs did with or to the original flowers (maybe they discovered them?), but it must have been unique. One more to drive in the point: good old Amerigo Vespucci.
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