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Thread #47526   Message #718688
Posted By: Wolfgang
28-May-02 - 08:18 AM
Thread Name: BS: the funny business of names
Subject: RE: BS: the funny business of names
A small selection from "Put the blame on the name" (Psychological Reports, 1975, p. 467ff), a paper on the correlation between authors' names and their field of study:

Birchenough published on history of education
L. Bolton Bangs on Effects of coitus interruptus
Klix on cybernetics
Wallace H. Wallace on satiation effects
Hard on (verbatim) "Effects of mounts without intromission upon sexaul behaviour in male rats"
Jaime A. Zipper on (verbatim) "Clinical experience with the use of flexible nylon rings as a contraceptive technique"
Ogle on stereoscopic depth perception

And the most famous of all, one of the first Big Bang theories about the origin of the world:

Alpher, Bethe and Gamov, "The origin of elements", Physical Review 1948 (Bethe was a great scientist, but to this paper he had only contributed his name, invited to do so by the other two)

Wolfgang