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Telescopes suffer distortion as an Airy disk. Named after George Biddel Airy.
Dove prisms, resembling a dovetail joint, are pronounced doh-vay, after Heinrich Wilhelm Dove.
Metropolis light transport in raytracing is named after Nicholas Metropolis, of the Manhattan project. And presumably pronounced met-RO-po-lis.
In radiology, the Radon transform, after Dr. Johann Radon. It's not nuclear medicine. His doctorate was in mathematics.
How in the world you know all that?!
Too much time on Wikipedia.