In reality, those kinds of names are generally not intended as some kind of trophy in the first place. It's more organic. They just grow out of colleagues, spe

In reality, those kinds of names are generally not intended as some kind of trophy in the first place. It's more organic. They just grow out of colleagues, speaking amongst themselves, referring to a fellow colleague's particular idea or elaboration. They all share a common base understanding of their field, many know of the colleague directly, and all know how to look something up if they know the colleagues name and gist of the idea. And so that's how they refer to it. Once in a while, these so-named insights prove really important or lasting -- after the fact -- and the name continues to stick because it's the one everybody was using. Meanwhile, most of the time, the insights just kind of fade back into the baseline body of knowledge and either don't break out at all or evolve through some collaborative work that earns a more formal name.