Yeah, right. ;-) But ultimately those who demeaned Heaviside weren't that successful given that most of his electrical nomenclature has actually stood the test of time and is still used today. It's worth quoting Wiki's list (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside):

"Electromagnetic terms

Heaviside coined the following terms of art in electromagnetic theory:

• admittance (reciprocal of impedance) (December 1887);

• elastance (reciprocal of permittance, reciprocal of capacitance) (1886);

• conductance (real part of admittance, reciprocal of resistance) (September 1885);

• electret for the electric analogue of a permanent magnet, or, in other words, any substance that exhibits a quasi-permanent electric polarization (e.g. ferroelectric);

• impedance (July 1886);

• inductance (February 1886);

• permeability (September 1885);

• permittance (now called capacitance) and permittivity (June 1887);

• reluctance (May 1888)."

Methinks that's more than anyone else has done!

Indeed, and perhaps I should have expanded on the context surrounding that remark. The professor considered Heaviside to be underappreciated and used the story as a lesson on academic and establishment fallibility.

So what did the college professor think of the Dirac delta function?