List of Examples of Stigler's Law - F

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• Farey sequence. Cauchy published the proof to a conjecture put forth by Farey. Unknown to both men, similar results were published earlier by Charles Haros.
• Fermi's golden rule, a quantum mechanical calculation, was discovered by Paul Dirac.
• Fresnel Lens. The idea of creating a thinner, lighter lens by making it with separate sections mounted in a frame is often attributed to Georges-Louis Leclerc.
• Frobenius elements in a Galois group of global fields were first created by Dedekind.