Human dictionaries: I need your help

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Uncommon medical:
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (physical condition with dystonia & severe compulsive self-mutilation)
Common medical:
Pasteurization (or did someone say that already ?) named for Pasteur.
Heimlich/Hiemlich ? (maneuver for resuing choking person).
Technological reproduction:
Dagguerotype photo/print (for Dagguere-sorry, don't know how to spell his name)

Watt - inventor of the steam engine
Fahrenheit - can't remember the guy's name but he was a German scientist
Thomist, Thomism - Thomas Aquinas, medieval doctor of the Catholic Church
Jansenism - after a puritanical French priest who was very influential in the Catholic church; later condemned
Nestorian - Greek bishop condemned by the Catholic church
Arianism - Arius, another early heretic
Mennonite - after Menno Simmons, Anabaptist leader
Amish - after Jacob Amman, Anabaptist leader who broke with Simmons
Marconi - early name for wireless radio
Morse - Samuel Morse
Braille - Louis Braille
Hoover - vacuum cleaner
also, let's not forget Gerrymander, since this is an election year

And one of my favorites, a little obsolete, but fun anyway
Sam Hill (as in what the Sam Hill). There seem to be many versions of the Sam Hill story, but according to Upper Peninsula lore, the original Sam Hill was a surveyor in Michigan's Copper Country who was known for his salty language.

Ohm (unit of electrical resistance) named for Georg Simon Ohm, German Physicist. Farad (unit of electric capacitance) named for Michael Faraday, English Physicist. Volt (unit of electrical potential) named for Italian Physicist. Alessandro Volta. Hertz (electromagnetic cycles per second) + KiloHertz, MegaHertz,etc. Named for Heinrich Hertz, German Physicist. Ampere or 'Amp' (unit of Electrical current) -named for Andre Ampere, French Physicist. Tesla (unit of magnetic flux density) named for Croatian-American Physicist Nickola Tesla. Many more. Consult any good list of SI units. Ross