The catchphrase "Bazinga!" - a zinger commonly uttered by Dr. Sheldon Cooper, a fictional theoretical physicist on the famous TV show "The Big Bang Theory" - has inspired the creation of a novel ternary compound BaZnGa by Paul C. Canfield, Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, and Na Hyun Jo, a graduate student of physics in Canfield's lab.

The original preprint can be found here.