I think Joule is doing just fine reputation wise. Language and history is messy. If you don't accept this you'll spend your life tilting at windmills in the mo

I think Joule is doing just fine reputation wise. Language and history is messy. If you don't accept this you'll spend your life tilting at windmills in the most pointless way. Another example, Von Neumann did not invent the architecture named after him. It's named after him because he wrote a very influential report on ENIAC.