The law stating discoveries are never named after their real discoverer is itself misnamed

Statistician Stephen Stigler proposed in 1980 that no scientific discovery is named after whoever actually found it first — then credited the idea to sociologist Robert K. Merton, making his own law an example of itself. Hubble's Law, for instance, was derived by Georges Lemaitre two years before Edwin Hubble published it.

— Stephen M. Stigler, Stigler's Law of Eponymy — Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1980