Swedish physician, botanist and zoologist Carl von Linné is today famous as the father of binomial nomenclature, a system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts ...

The mineral scottyite was named after Michael Scott. Not the Michael Scott of the television series "The Office"—the Michael Scott who co-founded the technology company Apple. Billionaire George Soros ...

THE study of mineral names by Prof. Chester was originally begun in the interest of Murray's New English Dictionary: the results of years of patient work and search are conveniently collected together ...

We bet that, in 1824, when Chester Dewey discovered a new mineral and called it cummingtonite, he wasn’t thinking straight. Or maybe people were simpler and a bit naïve at that time. Anyway, thanks to ...