which physicist was said to have shouted eureka from a tub
A stimulus was, in fact, responsible for the creation of the word Eureka! In the original Greek, Eureka! means I have found it!. According to Greek legend, a mathematician â¦ and physicist named Archimedes coined the term after being stimulated in a hot tub. He was settling in for a long soak one day around 250 B.C.