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.

Stephen

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