Provides the entertaining histories behind hundreds of eponyms, such as bowdlerize (from the censorious Thomas Bowdler) and bikini from the atoll. There are hundreds more -- discover to whom we owe the terms hooker, sideburn, zeppelin, the cardigan sweater, pamphlet, robot and a…
Searchable database of A new dictionary of eponyms by Morton S. Freeman contains the histories behind hundreds of eponyms.
"This dictionary was prepared to provide information about individuals whose names have become part of items in common use among psychologists, psychological eponyms." Alphabetical arrangement by names and eponyms. Entries give brief descriptions and brief biographical informati…
"This dictionary was prepared to provide information about individuals whose names have become part of items in common use among psychologists, psychological eponyms." Alphabetical arrangement by names and eponyms. Entries give brief descriptions and brief biographical informati…
