- List of eponyms (L-Z)
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eponym is a person (real or fictitious) whose name has become identified with a particular object or activity.__NOTOC__Here is a list of eponyms:
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Rudolf Laban — choreographer, createdlabanotation .
*Ferruccio Lamborghini — founder,Lamborghini
*Paul Langerhans —Islets of Langerhans
*Samuel Pierpont Langley — Langley a measurement of solar radiation.
*Lev Davidovich Landau —Landau pole ,Landau damping
*Chris Langton —Langton's ant
*Ernest Lawrence —lawrencium , chemical element
* Peter Lee —Peterlee , a town in County Durham
*Alfredo di Lelio —Alfredo sauce
*Vladimir Ilyich Lenin —Leninism ,Lenin's Testament , for various places seeLenino andList of places named after Lenin
*John Lennard-Jones —Lennard-Jones potential
*Jules Léotard —leotard
*Leudonus —Lothian
*Lars Levi Læstadius —Laestadianism
*Abraham Lincoln —Lincoln Records ; shipsUSS Abraham Lincoln (SSBN-602) ,USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) ; Lincoln is a slang term for theUnited States five dollar bill ;Lincoln Logs
*Charles Lindbergh , pilot —Lindbergh Law anti-kidnapping law
* Lisa, sister ofMatt Groening , creator ofThe Simpsons —Lisa Simpson , character in The Simpsons animated TV series
*Ignacio de la Llave — Veracruz-Llave
*Veronica Lodge , fictional character in Archie Comics - the Veronica search engine
*Fritz London —London force
*Huey Pierce Long , American politician — Huey, one of "Huey, Dewey and Louie", animated cartoon characters
*Ruy López de Segura , Spanish monk —Ruy Lopez opening in chess
*John De Lorean —De Lorean
*Hendrik Lorentz —Lorentz force ,Lorentz transformation
* Lothar — Lorraine, French province
* KingLouis XIV of France —Louisiana
* Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, fourth daughter of Queen Victoria —Alberta
*H. P. Lovecraft , Among the most famous horror authors. Inspired the term Lovecraftian.
*Hubert von Luschka —foramina of Luschka (outlets forcerebrospinal fluid in the brain);Luschka's crypts ;Luschka's joints
*Saint Lucy of Syracuse —Saint Lucia
*Martin Luther — theLutheran Christian denomination
*Alois Lutz — Lutz,Figure skating jump
* Charles Lynch —lynching , lynch lawM
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Ernst Mach —Mach number
*Karel Hynek Mácha —Máchovo jezero (Mácha's Lake), in the Czech Republic
* NicoloMachiavelli — Machiavellian—attempting to achieve what one wants by cunning, scheming and unscrupulous methods.
*Colin Maclaurin -Maclaurin series ,MacLaurin's inequality ,Sectrix of Maclaurin ,Trisectrix of Maclaurin ,
*Gaius Maecenas , a Roman patron of literature and the arts, a true "maecenas"
*François Magendie —foramen of Magendie (outlet forcerebrospinal fluid in the brain)
* Maggie, sister ofMatt Groening , creator ofThe Simpsons —Maggie Simpson , character in The Simpsons animated TV series
*Martin Mailman - American composer
*Jules Germain François Maisonneuve —Maisonneuve fracture
* Mrs. Malaprop, a character inThe Rivals , a play byRichard Brinsley Sheridan - malapropism (a humorous misuse of a word)
*Thomas Malthus —Malthusian ,Malthusianism ,Malthusian Growth Model ,Malthusian catastrophe
*Benoît Mandelbrot —Mandelbrot set
*Vinoo Mankad - Mankaded or to berun out at the bowler's end in cricket.
*Antoine Marfan —Marfan syndrome
* Marge, mother ofMatt Groening , creator ofThe Simpsons —Marge Simpson , character in The Simpsons animated TV series
*Henrietta Maria of France , wife of Charles I —Maryland
* Queen Mariana of Austria "or"Marie-Anne of Austria —Mariana Islands ,Mariana Trench
*Pierre Marie —Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
*Saint Marinus —San Marino
* Marplot, the main character inSusanna Centlivre 's plays "The Busy Body" and "Marplot in Lisbon" - marplot (an officious meddler or busybody who disrupts the plans of others)
* John Marshall —Marshall Islands
*Lionel Martin —Aston Martin
*Jean Martinet — martinet; a disciplinarian
* Mary, mother of Jesus - numerous communities and geographic features (either named St. Mary or having the word Lady in them), a large number of cathedrals, churches, and religious orders, theladybird
*Mary the Jewess , ancient alchemist invented theBain-marie to warm substances such asElixir to germinateprecious metals
*John L. Mason — Mason jar
*Alonzo C. Mather —Mather Stock Car Company
* Harold "Matt" Matson and Elliot Handler —Mattel
*Jujiro Matsuda — founder,Mazda (also possibly inspired by Zoroastrian godAhura Mazda )
* Queen Maud of Norway -Queen Maud Land in Antarctica
*Maurice of Nassau —Mauritius
*Maussollus—mausoleum , a monumental tomb
*Hiram Maxim —Maxim gun
*James Clerk Maxwell —Maxwell , unit of magnetic flux
*Louis B. Mayer — founder ofLouis B. Mayer Pictures which later merged intoMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer (or MGM)
*John Loudon McAdam —macadam process of road construction,tarmac (tar+macadam) road surface
* Dick McDonald and Mac McDonald — founders,McDonald's Corporation
*Giuseppe Meazza —Stadio Giuseppe Meazza , a football stadium in Italy
*Meirion , son ofCunedda —Merionethshire
*Georg Meissner —Meissner corpuscles
*Walter Meissner (andRobert Ochsenfeld ) —Meissner effect (or Meissner-Ochsenfeld effect)
*Lise Meitner —meitnerium , chemical element
*Nellie Melba —Melba toast ;Peach Melba ; Melba, a suburb ofCanberra ,Australia
*Gregor Mendel —Mendelian inheritance ,Mendel Polar Station , lunar crater Mendel
*Dmitri Mendeleev —mendelevium , chemical element
*Prosper Meniere —Meniere's disease
*Mentor (Greek mythology ) — mentor: a trusted friend, counselor or teacher, usually a more experienced person,mentoring programs
*Giuseppe Mercalli —Mercalli intensity scale of anearthquake
*Franz Mesmer (1734–1815)—Mesmerism
*Robert Metcalfe —Metcalfe's law
*Methuselah — 6 litre wine bottle seeWine bottle#Sizes
*Michelangelo ,Renaissance painter — Michaelangelo, one of theTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic characters
*Hermann Minkowski —Minkowski space ,Minkowski's theorem ,Minkowski addition ,Minkowski inequality
*Ernesto Miranda —Miranda Warning
*Andrija Mohorovičić —Mohorovičić discontinuity
* "Pepe le Moko " fictional character from the novel and movies of the same name —Pepe Le Pew Warner Bros. French skunk character
*Vyacheslav Molotov (1890–1986) —Molotov cocktail
*Robert Moog —Moog synthesizer
*Gordon Moore —Moore's Law
*Jean Moreau de Sechelles —Seychelles
*José María Morelos —Morelos
* PrinceMorgan the Old of Gwent —Glamorgan
*Ernst Moro —Moro reflex
*Samuel Morse —Morse code
*John Morton (1420–1500), Chancellor of England —Morton's Fork , a choice between two equally unpleasant alternatives
*Jerry Moss andHerb Alpert —A&M Records
*Rudolf Mössbauer —Mossbauer effect
* LordLouis Mountbatten —Mountbatten pink , naval camouflage pigment
*Erasto B. Mpemba —Mpemba effect
*Antonín Mrkos — fourcomet s carry his name:18D/Perrine-Mrkos ,45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova ,124P/Mrkos and143P/Kowal-Mrkos
*Walther Müller —Geiger-Müller tube
* David, John A. or Thomas Mulligan -Mulligan
*Ian Murdock and Debra Murdock —Debian project for free software, made after combining Ian's and his wife's name Debra.
*William Lawrence Murphy —Murphy bed .N–O
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Fridtjof Nansen —Nansen passport
*John Napier —neper , unit of relative power level,Napier's bones , method for performing multiplication
* Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, —Napoleonic code andNapoleonic Wars
* Narcissus - Narcissism
*John Forbes Nash —Nash equilibrium ,Nash embedding theorem
*Joachim Neander (1650–1680), poet, for whom the Neanderthal (valley) was named, and thus theNeandertal fossil found there
* Nebuchadnezzar — nebuchadnezzar, 15 litre wine bottle
*Jawaharlal Nehru —Nehru jacket ,Nehru Planetarium
*Baby Face Nelson —Baby Face Finlayson , formerly from "The Beano " comic
*Henri Nestlé — created the milk-based food in 1867 which becameNestlé
*Nestor ,Patriarch of Constantinople —nestorianism
*John von Neumann —Von Neumann machine ,Von Neumann probe ,Von Neumann architecture ,John von Neumann Theory Prize ,IEEE John von Neumann Medal
*Rolf Nevanlinna —Nevanlinna theory ,
*Isaac Newton —newton — unit of force,Newton's law of cooling , Newton's law of gravitation,Newton's laws of motion ,Newton's rings
*Jean Nicot -Nicotine
*Arthur Nielsen —Nielsen Ratings from theNielsen Media Research , Inc. firm
*Alfred Nobel —Nobel Prize s,nobelium , chemical element
*Emmy Noether —Noether's theorem ,Noetherian ring s
*Ian Norman andGerry Harvey —Harvey Norman
*Annie Oakley - any woman who shoots a gun very well
*Robert Ochsenfeld andWalter Meissner — Meissner-Ochsenfeld effect (Meissner effect )
*William of Ockham —Occam's Razor
* KingOengus I of the Picts —Angus
*Georg Ohm — ohm — unit of electrical resistance,Ohm's Law
* Ongull, aScandinavia n landowner —Anglesey
*Jan Oort —Oort cloud
*Adam Opel — founder of the car manufacturing companyOpel
*Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery —orrery , a mechanical model of the solar system
*Hans Christian Ørsted —oersted , unit of magnetic field strengthP
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David Packard andWilliam Hewlett —Hewlett-Packard
*František Palacký —Palacký University, Olomouc
* Paparazzo, a press photographer inFederico Fellini 's film "La dolce vita " —paparazzo press photographer
*Vilfredo Pareto —Pareto principle ,Pareto efficiency ,Pareto distribution ,Pareto index
*James Parkinson —Parkinson's disease
*Rosa Parks —Rosa Parks Highway
*Blaise Pascal — Pascal — unit of pressure;Pascal's triangle ,Pascal's Wager or Pascal's Gambit,Pascal programming language ,Pascal's theorem
*Louis Pasteur —Pasteurization
*Wolfgang Pauli —Pauli exclusion principle
*Axel Paulsen — Axel,Figure skating jump
*Ivan Petrovich Pavlov —Pavlovian conditioning
*Anna Pavlova —Pavlova
*Giuseppe Peano —Peano axioms
*Jean Charles Athanase Peltier —Peltier effect
*Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (ballpoint pen ) —Penkalo
*William Penn —Pennsylvania
* J.C. Penney —JCPenney
*Roger Penrose —Penrose diagram ,Penrose tiling ,Penrose triangle ,Penrose stairs
* Dom Pérignon (1638–1715), a blind French Benedictine monk — Dom Pérignon (wine)
*St. Peter —Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
*Philip II of Spain —Philippines
* Gerard Philips — founder,Philips
*Joseph Pilates — thePilates Method
*Max Planck —Planck's constant ,Planck's law of black body radiation
*Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels —Pockels effect
*Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779–1851) —poinsettia
*Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille —Poise — unit of viscosity,Poiseuille's Law
*Charles Ponzi (1877–1949) —Ponzi scheme , a kind of fraud
*Pierre Poujade (1920–2003) —Poujadism
*Ferry Porsche — founder,Porsche
*Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin —Potemkin village
*Percivall Pott —Pott's disease ,Pott's fracture
* William Procter andJames Gamble —Procter & Gamble
*Joseph Pulitzer —Pulitzer Prize
*Jan Evangelista Purkyně —Purkinje cell Q–R
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Vidkun Quisling (1887–1945), Norwegian traitor — the term "quisling" became a synonym in many European languages fortraitor
*C. V. Raman —Raman spectroscopy ,Raman effect
*William John Macquorn Rankine — degree Rankine,Rankine cycle
*Raphael ,Renaissance painter — Raphael, one of theTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic characters
*John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh —Rayleigh scattering
*Maurice Raynaud , French physician —Raynaud's disease
*Ronald Reagan , 40th U.S. president –Reagan Era ,Reaganomics ,Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport ,USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) ,Ronald Reagan Trail
*René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur —degree Réaumur , unit of temperature
*Dorothy Reed —Reed-Sternberg cell
*Rehoboam — 4.5 litre wine bottle (seeWine bottle#Sizes )
*Arnold Reuben (possibly) — Reuben
*Paul Reuter —Reuters news agency
*Cecil Rhodes —Northern Rhodesia "(NowZambia )",Southern Rhodesia "(NowZimbabwe )"
*Victor A. Rice -Varity Corporation
*Charles Richter —Richter magnitude scale
*Ron Rivest — the first letter of the nameRSA , an asymmetric algorithm for public key cryptography, is taken from Rivest
*John D. Rockefeller , —Oysters Rockefeller
* Romulus — Rome
* CountKarl Robert von Nesselrode —Nesselrode
*Alvah Roebuck andRichard Sears — Sears, Roebuck, now Sears
*Charles Rolls andHenry Royce — Rolls-Royce
*Wilhelm Röntgen —röntgen , unit of dosage of X-rays or gamma radiation
*Andrés Quintana Roo —Quintana Roo
*Theodore Roosevelt , jr. (1858–1919) —Teddybear
*Gioacchino Rossini —Tournedos Rossini
* Rota, a Saxon landowner ("Rota's land") —Rutland
*Karl Rove -Rovian (dirty) campaign tactics
*Henry Royce andCharles Rolls — Rolls-Royce
*Ernő Rubik —Rubik's Cube ,Rubik's Clock ,Rubik's Magic ,Rubik's Revenge
*Carle David Tolmé Runge —Runge's phenomenon
* Lord Rutherford —rutherfordium , chemical element
*Johannes Rydberg —Rydberg constant *
Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade , or, the Marquis de Sade, whose writings gave the name to sadism.
*SheikhSafi Al-Din Ardabili —Safavid Dynasty ,Safavids
*Leopold von Sacher-Masoch , one of the first to write of the pleasures of pain and humiliation, now calledmasochism
*John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich —sandwich es
*Franz Sacher , Vienna —Sachertorte
*Ulrich Salchow — Salchow,Figure skating jump
*Salmanazar biblical king — 9 litre wine bottle (seeWine bottle#Sizes )
*Vasili Samarsky-Bykhovets , aRussia n mine official —samarskite , the mineral after which the chemical elementsamarium has been named
*Rick Santorum , aUnited States Senator — santorum, a sexually explicit term
*Sappho (630 BC–612 BC), Greek poetess who wrote love poems addressed to women —sapphism or lesbianism
*Muhammad bin Saud —Saudi Arabia
*Adolphe Sax — thesaxophone , a musical instrument
*Louie Schmitt , animator — Louie, one of "Huey, Dewey and Louie", animated cartoon characters
*Walter H. Schottky , German physicist —Schottky diode
*Erwin Schrödinger —Schrödinger equation ,Schrödinger's cat , "Schrödinger's Kittens " — a book
*Ed Scott — the second letter of the company nameBEA Systems , is taken from Ed, a co-founder
* Robert Scott, Antarctic explorer —Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
*Ebenezer Scrooge , fictional character in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" —Scrooge McDuck
*Glenn T. Seaborg —seaborgium , chemical element
*Richard Sears andAlvah Roebuck — Sears, Roebuck; stores bear only the Sears name
*Chief Seattle — City of Seattle
*Thomas Johann Seebeck —Seebeck effect
*Josef Sekanina — mineralSekaninaite
*Edgar Selwyn andArchibald Selwyn , who used the last three letters of their name along with the first four ofSamuel Goldfish to createGoldwyn Picture Corporation , which later merged intoMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer (or MGM)
*Adi Shamir — the second letter of the nameRSA , an asymmetric algorithm for public key cryptography, is taken from Shamir
* Sherlock - short forSherlock Holmes , anyone who solves a mystery or a difficult problem, based on the fictional character bySir Arthur Conan Doyle
*Roger Shepard —Shepard tone
*Henry S. Shrapnel (1761–1842) —shrapnel
*Jean Sibelius (composer) —Sibelius notation program , and its developerSibelius Software Limited
*Ambrose Burnside (1824-1881) —Sideburns
*Werner von Siemens — Siemens — unit of electrical conductance;Siemens AG — company
*Rolf Sievert —sievert , unit of radiation dose equivalent
*Etienne de Silhouette (1709–1767) —Silhouette
*Homer Simpson cartoon figure fromThe Simpsons — "doing a homer"; meaning to accidentally save the day from disaster
*Issac Merritt Singer , inventor, improvements in the design of the sewing machine —Singer Corporation
*Alexander Skene —Skene's gland
*BF Skinner - behaviorist who created theoperant conditioning chamber -- which is often called the Skinner box*
*Oliver R. Smoot —smoot
*Hermann Snellen —Snellen chart
* Snot, a Saxon landowner ("Snot's home" + shire) —Nottinghamshire
*Socrates -Socratic Method
*Solomon —Solomon Islands
*John Philip Sousa —Sousaphone
*William Archibald Spooner (1844–1930) —spoonerism
*Joseph Stalin —Stalinism andNeo-Stalinism (also seeDe-Stalinization ), seeList of places named after Joseph Stalin , Joseph Stalin Museum,Stalinist architecture ,Stalin Society ,Stalin Prize ,Stalin Peace Prize ,Iosif Stalin tank
*Johannes Stark —Stark spectroscopy ,Stark effect
* Jozef Stefan andLudwig Boltzmann —Stefan-Boltzmann constant
*Carl von Sternberg (disputed) —Reed-Sternberg cell
*George M. Sternberg (disputed) —Reed-Sternberg cell
*John K. Stewart andArthur P. Warner —Stewart-Warner
*George Gabriel Stokes — stokes, unit of viscosity
*Marshall Harvey Stone —Stone–von Neumann theorem ,Stone–Čech compactification ,Stone's representation theorem for Boolean algebras ,Stone space ,Stone-Weierstrass theorem ,Stone's representation theorem for distributive lattices ,Stone duality ,Stone's theorem on one-parameter unitary groups ,Banach-Stone theorem
*Antonio Stradivari —Stradivari violin
*Levi Strauss —Levi Strauss & Co.
* Count Stroganov (possibly Count Pavel Alexandrovitch Stroganov or Count Grigory Stroganov) —Stroganoff
*Rashid Sunyaev andYakov B. Zel'dovich —Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect
* Michio Suzuki — founder,Suzuki
*Sage Kambu Swayambhuva —Cambodia
*Theodor Svedberg —svedberg , unit of sedimentation rateT
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James Mourilyan Tanner —Tanner stage
*Tarik-ibn-Ziyad (from Arabic "djebl al-Tarik" or "mountain of Tarik") —Gibraltar
*Abel Tasman —Tasmania
*J. R. D. Tata — founder,Tata
*Stéphanie Tatin andCaroline Tatin —Tarte Tatin
* Maria Teresa, theGrand Duchess ofLuxembourg —Maria Teresa cocktail
*Nikola Tesla —Tesla coil , tesla — unit of magnetic flux density
*Luisa Tetrazzini , operatic soprano —Chicken Tetrazzini
*Leon Theremin —Theremin
*Lou Thesz — "Lou Thesz punches," aprofessional wrestling maneuver involving using primarily your legs to tackle an opponent to the ground, then delivering a series of punches while straddling your opponent.
*Christopher Titus — "Titus", an Emmy nominated TV series broadcast on FOX from 2000–2002.
* Saint Thomas —São Tomé and Príncipe
*John T. Thompson —Thompson submachine gun
*Miloš Tichý —comet P/2000 U6 Tichý
*Johann Daniel Titius andJohann Elert Bode —Titius-Bode Law
*James Tobin — the proposedTobin tax
*Howard Henry Tooth —Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
*Evangelista Torricelli —torr , unit of pressure
*Linus Torvalds —Linus's law ,Linux operating system (from Linus'Minix ),Tux — mascot of Linux (from Torvald's Unix)
*Sakichi Toyoda — founder,Toyota
*Donald Trump —Trump Tower , theTrump International Hotel and Tower ,Trump Plaza etc.
*Alan Turing —Turing machine ,Turing-complete ,Turing tarpit ,Turing test ,Church-Turing thesis ,Church-Turing-Deutsch principle
*J. M. W. Turner , English painter —Turner Prize in art
*Ted Turner , media mogul —Turner Entertainment ,Turner Classic Movies ,Turner Broadcasting System or TBS,TBS Superstation , WTBS,Turner Network Television or TNT,Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award , Ted Turner debate (a style of team debate recognized by theNational Forensics League ; also referred to as Controversy debate)
*Marie Tussaud —Madame Tussauds wax museumU–V
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James Van Allen —Van Allen radiation belt
*George Vancouver —Vancouver, British Columbia ,Vancouver, Washington ,Vancouver Island
*Johannes Diderik van der Waals —Van der Waals force
* Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512) — America
* Queen Victoria —Queensland ,Victoria (Australia) ,Victoria, British Columbia , Victoria Island,Lake Victoria ,Victoria Harbour
* Saint Vincent —Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
*Leonardo da Vinci ,Renaissance painter — Leonardo, one of theTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic characters
*Vitruvius , Roman architect — "Homo Vitruvianus" orVitruvian Man — famous drawing by Leonardo da VinciAndrew Viterbi (born 1935), Qualcomm Corp. -Viterbi Algorithim
*Alessandro Volta — thevolt , a unit of electromotive forceW
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Samuel Wallis , 18th century navigator —Wallis and Futuna
*Sam Walton —Wal-Mart
* the brothersJack Warner , Sam Warner, Harold Warner and Albert Warner —Warner Bros.
*Arthur P. Warner andJohn K. Stewart —Stewart-Warner
*George Washington —Washington andWashington D.C.
*James Watt (1736–1819) — thewatt , a unit of power
*Wilhelm Eduard Weber — Weber, unit of magnetic flux
*Peter J. Weinberger — the second letter of the nameawk , a computer pattern/action language, is taken from Weinberger
* Duke of Wellington —Beef Wellington ,Wellington boot
*Eudora Welty —Eudora , an e-mail client.
*Mae West (1893–1980), busty actress for whom the flotation safety vest was named.
*Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr —Delaware
*George Hoyt Whipple —Whipple's disease
*Gough Whitlam , Australian Prime Minister - "The Whitlams " pop group
*Frederick Methvan Whyte (1865–1941) —Whyte notation
*Wilhelm Wien —Wien's law
*Eugene Wigner —Wigner's friend
*Erik Adolf von Willebrand —Von Willebrand disease ,Von Willebrand factor
*Max Wilms , a German surgeon —Wilms' tumor
*Oliver F. Winchester — chief investorWinchester repeating rifle
*Caspar Wistar (1761–1818) —Wisteria
*Kaspar Friedrich Wolff —Wolffian duct X–Z
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