Leaving a mark upon the world

That Higgs-boson guy (Mr Higgs, not Mr Boson) was a bit lucky to find a hitherto unknown elementary particle that just happened to have the same name as him. What are the chances of that? How cool must it be to give your name to something that everybody uses? Ladislav Biro, Lord Cardigan/Sandwich, the Fosbury Flop- OK, so maybe we don’t use the last one that often but where would ice-skating commentators be without the triple-Salchow?
Places like The Cook Islands, are a bit harder to leave your name on since everywhere’s been discovered but you can still pay spurious web-sites to supposedly have a star named after you.
I’m working on creating a ‘Pixelloverse’ of childish characters, who appear stupid but are actually quite clever. It might be a while before I make it into the dictionary.
P.S. Wasn't Black Friday Robinson Crusoe's sidekick?