The reaction is named after the French chemist Marc Julia.

The reaction is credited to and named after Rolf Appel, it had however been described earlier.

The reaction is named after Hans Meerwein, one of its inventors who first published it in 1939.

The reaction is named after Alfred Rieche who invented it in 1960.

The reaction is named after Lavoslav Ružička who invented it in 1926.

The Mannich reaction was named after his discovery of the mechanism in 1912.

The reaction was invented by and named after Hermann Staudinger.

The reaction is named after its discoverer, Robert Burns Woodward.

Many reactions have been named after early workers in organic chemistry.

In his honor, the reaction has been named the Claisen rearrangement.