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I was not aware of this, but it's consistent with the Stigler's law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler's_law_of_eponymyvanhees71 said:The Heisenberg algebra is of course a very unjust misnomer, i.e., it should be named "Born algebra", because indeed Born was the first to write down the commutation relations for position and momentum and recognized the algebraic scheme behind Heisenberg's Helgoland paper ;-)).