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Physics is absolutely crammed with person names, though. Maxwell’s equations, Newtown’s laws, Boltzmann distributions, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, Einstein’s summation convention, Green’s formula, Lagrangian, Hamiltonian, etc etc etc. Not that I think it’s a problem.

Even if this were true (see, Newton's laws, Lagrangians and on and on), it's an odd claim that memorizing "quark" is any easier than remembering what a Hamiltonian is. Not to mention that memorizing jargon is a triviality barely worthy of footnote compared to actually learning the field.

But what about the units…?

I personally like to define Tesla in terms of the fine structure constant..

Units are arbitrary, particles aren’t.

Newton might look foundational as 1 N = 1 kg * m/s^2, but if the kilogram had been defined as 1% smaller or the meter larger then so presumably would the Newton.

Sometimes this frustrates me immensely in Mathematics.

but I like this, everyone fighting enough for human/science will be recorded and remember as long as we can