List of Examples of Stigler's Law - WX

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• Wang tiles were hypothesized by Hao Wang not to exist, but an example was constructed by his student Robert Berger.
• Wheatstone bridge, an electrical measuring instrument invented by Samuel Hunter Christie in 1833, but named after Sir Charles Wheatstone who improved and popularized it in 1843.
• Wike's law of low odd primes, a principle of design of experiments, was stated by Sir Ronald A. Fisher in 1935 but named by Edwin Wike in 1973.