Examples
Many terms and phrases were so evocative that they quickly suffered the fate of 'obliteration by incorporation'. Examples include:
- double helix structure of DNA, introduced by James D. Watson and Francis Crick
- periodic table of elements, introduced by Dmitri Mendeleev
- premature discovery, introduced by Gunther Stent
- self-fulfilling prophecy, introduced by Robert K. Merton
- role model, introduced by Robert K. Merton
In mathematics:
- the structure theorem for finitely generated modules over a principal ideal domain
- the Weierstrass definition of continuous function, popularly called "the ε-δ definition".
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