Stephen escreveu:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> scott wrote:
>>>> Heh. Imagine going to school and learning about "Dave's forces" or
>>>> "Bob's law". Wouldn't be quite the same as van der Waals forces and
>>>> Hooke's law, would it?
>>> Hooke was English.
>> ...really?
> 
> As was Lord Kelvin, Napier, Stephen Hawkins (Well British)
> 
> 
>> Heh. You learn something every day.
>>
>> Did you see the episode of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? where 3% of
>> the audience thought that "Ludwig van Beethoven" was English? :-D (I
>> have no idea what his nationallity actually was, but I'm fairly sure
>> it's not a typical English name...)
>>
> 
> German! O_O
> 
> They (3%) must have been confusing him with Handel who lived in England and
> composed Messiah, Zadok the Priest and Music for the Royal Fireworks there.

"Ludwig" by itself should be enough. :)

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