# Theories, processes, solutions, etc. named for 2 people **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 16, 2019, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theories-processes-solutions-etc-named-for-2-people/835610 "2019-06-16T15:27:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2019, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theories-processes-solutions-etc-named-for-2-people/835610/41 "2019-06-17T17:57:22Z")
[Th Mann-Whitney test](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann%E2%80%93Whitney_U_test#History) (or the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test) ---
**Author:** ![Disheavel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Disheavel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disheavel)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2019, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theories-processes-solutions-etc-named-for-2-people/835610/42 "2019-06-17T18:42:39Z")
Woodward-Hoffman Rules - general rules formulating heat vs. light activated sigmatropic rearrangements (fancy chemical reactions) In Chemistry, a huge number of named reactions have two people associated such as Diels-Alder, Friedel-Krafts, and some of the people aren’t even German! In biology, Watson-Crick base pairing of DNA Luria-Bertani broth (i.e. LB) - a staple of fermentation food for bacteria. Although technically originally named LB for “lysogeny broth” most people refer to it by the inventor and a popularizer’s names. Michaelis - Menten kinetics. The most common form of enzyme kinetics calculations (catalysis rate) found in biochemistry Edited to say that in looking at chemical reactions and other responses, MOST sets of name are indeed German. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theories-processes-solutions-etc-named-for-2-people/835610/43 "2019-06-17T18:52:07Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > The Wesley Willis Fiasco. If this qualifies, we’re going to end up listing every President-VP ticket in history. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theories-processes-solutions-etc-named-for-2-people/835610/44 "2019-06-17T19:04:06Z")
Voight-Kampff test. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2019, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theories-processes-solutions-etc-named-for-2-people/835610/45 "2019-06-17T20:41:53Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > There are loads of them in math. Here’s a few. > Yank-Mills equation. Is that a typo for [Yang–Mills](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang%E2%80%93Mills_theory) or something else? (And that article cites two more qualifiers: Aharonov–Bohm effect and Kaluza–Klein theory. The first cites two more and 2nd one more. Woo, boy.) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2019, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theories-processes-solutions-etc-named-for-2-people/835610/46 "2019-06-17T21:06:20Z")
Comet [Hale-Bopp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Hale%E2%80%93Bopp) Comet [Shoemaker-Levy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker%E2%80%93Levy_9) Comet [Schwassmann–Wachmann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/73P/Schwassmann%E2%80%93Wachmann) (that is, assuming the ‘etc’ includes things other than theorems etc) ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2019, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theories-processes-solutions-etc-named-for-2-people/835610/47 "2019-06-17T22:26:40Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Comet [Shoemaker-Levy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker%E2%80%93Levy_9) There’s actually nine of those. Everyone just thinks of the ninth one because, well, Jupiter smash. [Sapir-Whorf hypothesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity) ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2019, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theories-processes-solutions-etc-named-for-2-people/835610/48 "2019-06-17T22:51:36Z")
The Gummel-Poon transistor model: [Gummel–Poon model - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummel%E2%80%93Poon_model) Brian [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theories-processes-solutions-etc-named-for-2-people/835610.md?page=2)