List of Examples of Stigler's Law - S

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• The Schottky diode was neither discovered by Schottky nor its operation correctly explained by him. The actual nature of the metal–semiconductor junction was noted by Hans Bethe.
• Simpson's paradox, a term introduced by Colin R. Blyth in 1972; but Edward Simpson did not actually discover this statistical paradox.
• Snell's law of refraction, named after Willebrord Snellius, a Dutch scientist, also known as Descartes law of refraction (after Rene Descartes) was discovered by Ibn Sahl.
• Stokes's theorem discovered by Lord Kelvin
• Stigler's Law, attributed by Stigler himself to Robert K. Merton.