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The closest reference you’ll find is on a ramp leading to the Port a Soprana, a medieval turreted gate on Piazza Dante, where there is an obscure plaque indicating the house of the discoverer’s father.
Some countries name their currency to honor people famous in their history: bolivar (Venezuela) for the liberator of South America, Simón Bolívar; sucre (Ecuador) for Antonio José de Sucre, chief lieutenant of Bolívar and liberator of what is now Ecuador at the battle of Pichincha in 1822 near Quito; colón (Costa Rica, El Salvador) for Christopher Columbus; balboa (Panama) for Vasco Núñez de Balboa, discoverer of the Pacific Ocean; lempira (Honduras) for the 16th-century Indian chief who is a national symbol of liberty and valor for resisting the Spanish advance; and córdoba (Nicaragua) for Francisco Hernández de Cór doba, first acting governor.
The name of gallium is not only a pun on the name of its discoverer, Lecoq de Boisbaudran, but a patriotic tribute to his native country—Latin Gallia , Gaul, France.
There's a corresponding bandwidth law, named after its discoverer, right-wing techno-utopian George Gilder , which states that bandwidth triples every 12 months.
Madeira’s discoverer, Zarco, is buried beneath the altar, but the memorial to him vanished long ago.