When I was in college, a math professor was talking about euclidean geometry. I was about to ask him why it wasn't capitalized, but he beat me to it. He said when you make a great contribution to science you get a law or something named after you in capital letters, such as Newton's Laws of Motion, or Einstein's Theory of Relativity. When your name becomes a lower-case common noun, however, that denotes you've arrived - true greatness indeed.
I notice that Samizdata.net uses the lower-case form for "fisk" in its glossary. Mark Byron (can't find the permalink-sorry) also uses the lower-case form in a sentence that has my name in it!
Glenn Reynolds uses the uppercase form, however.
Posted by joelfuhrmann at October 22, 2002 10:09 PM