That happened quite a bit during the Cold War: many discoveries were simultaneously made in the U.S. and in the U.S.S.R., but they ended up being named after th

That happened quite a bit during the Cold War: many discoveries were simultaneously made in the U.S. and in the U.S.S.R., but they ended up being named after the American scientist (mostly). Fortunately, in some cases, discoveries share the names of the Western and the Soviet scientists who made them.