Talk:De Haas–Van Alphen effect
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Whay was this renamed to ...-van Alfven effect? I was under the assumption that the correct name is van Alphen. --Tiglet 15:33, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
- It is definitely Van Alphen, see e.g. [1]. Additionally, the correct (Dutch) capitalization is De Haas-Van Alphen effect Aron Beekman 10:57, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
- I think someone got confused with the Swedish plasma physicist Hannes Alfvén. Could someone move this page back to the original location? Aron Beekman 16:25, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
Capitalization
[edit]Many edits on the capitalzation have appeared in the history of this article, I will write this for future edits. The fact that both scientists are Dutch complicates things per {{Dutch name capitalization}}. Some articles prefer to capitalize according majority of sources (which can be inconsistent) others prefer to capitalize according to some internal Wiki rule. The options here are:
- Double capitalization: the De Haas-Van Alphen effect (this applies Dutch capitalization to both, considering that the last names are separate. One should write the effect of De Haas and Van Alphen.).
- First name capitalization: the De Haas-van Alphen effect (applies Dutch capitalization once, the first is capitalized but the second is preceded by another name so it is not capitalized. Similar to Dutch marital names).
- Second name capitalization: the de Haas-Van Alphen effect (totally unacceptable, no capitalization rule allows this).
- No capitalization: the de Haas-van Alphen effect (this would be ideal if we accept that we do not use Dutch capitalization, as done in van der Waals equation.
What to use here seems to be a matter of taste (aside from 3)... ReyHahn (talk) 11:39, 16 April 2025 (UTC)