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Erasto Mpemba

A Tanzanian student who, in 1963, observed that a hot ice cream mixture froze faster than a cold one. He brought the question to physicist Denis Osborne, leading to the first formal study of the phenomenon. The effect is named in his honour, a rare case of a scientific curiosity being named for the person who asked the question, not the one who first answered it.

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