Just now in one of the regular holivors it sounded:
Most of the important discoveries in the 20th century were not made by us but by them.
In this connection, I immediately remembered the principle of Arnold:
Arnold principle. If a concept has a personal name, then it is not the name of the discoverer.
As well as the addition in the form of the Berry principle:
Berry principle. The Arnold principle applies to itself.
Why am I doing this?
Recently, on Wikipedia, I looked through an article on the theory of inflation (cosmological) and found the following lines:
The term "inflation" is also used in the theory of inflation, or inflation. Alan Guth in 1980 .
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_theoryAlan Guth is the only name mentioned in the introduction.
Gently go to the "History" section and read:
- in the early 1970s, Zeldovich points to serious shortcomings in the theory of the Big One; before his work, questions of symmetry in cosmology did not rise;
- Belinsky and Khalatnikov, developing the Zeldovich idea, explored the Belinsky-Khalatnikov-Lifshits singularity
- In 1979 Starobinsky suggested that the early Universe passed through the inflationary stage (the de Sitter phase)
- In 1980, Alan Guth proposes his own inflation scenario, which differs from the Starobinsky scenario only in details. However, the theory of Guta is faced with intractable problems.
- In 1983, Andrei Linde proposes a theory of chaotic inflation, which is now generally accepted.
Yes Yes Yes.
Most of the important discoveries in the 20th century were not made by us but by them.
And there is.