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Its weird to me that Mould would be the one to have his name on it considering the wikipedia article itself says this effect has been known for a while now.
Stigler's law of eponymy
I get what you're saying, but he's spent years investigating this subject, so it feels fair for him to be given some credit for it. No requirement that we name things after the literal person who discovered it, particularly because that's often impossible to prove.