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Things Unexpectedly Named After People (notes.rolandcrosby.com)
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[–] JoBo@feddit.uk 4 points 7 months ago

Southern blot is a neat full circle:

The method is named after the British biologist Edwin Southern, who first published it in 1975.[3] Other blotting methods (i.e., western blot,[4] northern blot, eastern blot, southwestern blot) that employ similar principles, but using RNA or protein, have later been named for compass directions as a sort of pun from Southern's name.