• @[email protected]
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      1010 months ago

      it was not discredited until the work of the French chemist Louis Pasteur and the Irish physicist John Tyndall in the mid-19th century.

      There was a post on lemmy the other day about things that get their names from real people. I forgot that “pasteurize” was also one

      • @[email protected]
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        410 months ago

        gerrymander is always a weird one, I dunno if flanderization counts but I’ll just leave it here

        • @samus12345
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          210 months ago

          Defini-diddilly does, Lemmarino!