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• Aharonov-Bohm effect. Werner Ehrenberg and Raymond E. Siday first predicted the effect in 1949, and similar effects were later rediscovered by Yakir Aharonov and David Bohm in 1959.
• Alzheimer's disease, though named after Alois Alzheimer, had been previously described by at least half a dozen others before Alzheimer's 1906 report which is often (wrongly) regarded as the first description of the disorder.
• America, named after Americo Vespucci (the name was given by German cartographers Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann), although Vespucci was not the first European to find either North or South America. He participated only to expeditions on the eastern coast of South America, and was not even in command of all of those expeditions. Many other explorers found different parts of the continent before and after him. Those include, for example, Christopher Columbus, who predated Vespucci and is considered to be the discoverer of the Americas, yet he was supposedly also predated by the Norse Vikings, supposedly led by Leif Ericson, who are supposed to have found Newfoundland.
• Arabic numerals, which were invented in India.
• Arrhenius equation. The equation was first proposed by the Dutch chemist J. H. van 't Hoff in 1884; five years later in 1889, the Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius provided a physical justification and interpretation for it.
• Auger effect. First discovered by Lise Meitner in 1922 and then, independently, in 1923 by Pierre Victor Auger.
• Avogadro constant. While the work of Amedeo Avogadro predicted the idea of a set number of molecules in a set weight of a substance, the actual constant was discovered by Jean Baptiste Perrin some 53 years after Avogrado's death.