More famous undercited physicists
The numbers on citations and all listed by Heath O'Connell (Mar 07) are exceedingly interesting! The general phenomenon has been known to people working in scientometrics for many decades, and is called "incorporation." I also rediscovered it, about 20 years ago, in connection with astronomical entities like the Schwarzschild solution, Weber bars, and von Zeipel's theorem. Not then knowing that it was a well-established concept, I coined the name "second order Mossbauer effect" (meaning that many folks used and use Mossbauer spectroscopy, but rather few cite him).
Virginia Trimble, Past Chair, APS Forum on History of Physics
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