Game of the name
Lots of inventions and discoveries get named after people – the biro pen, the sandwich, degrees Celsius – but there is frequently little rhyme or reason to how this happens. Sometimes people actively promote things taking their names – such words are called eponyms – though many times through history people have tried to prevent it or had little choice, typically because the association happened after they were dead.
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, for instance, didn't invent the terrible star of the French Revolution and was actually opposed to capital punishment, merely wanting humane deaths. The guillotine was once known as the louisette, after its actual inventor, his colleague Antoine Louis. The fellow who designed the Uzi machine gun, Israeli soldier Uziel Gal, didn't want
