Asteroids named after people called Elwin
(18548) Christoffel
Elwin Bruno Christoffel (1829-1900) was a professor at various German universities. His work on quadratic differential forms, inspired by Riemann, anticipated some of the results of tensor theory later developed by Ricci and Levi-Civita.Discovered 10 January 1997 by P. G. Comba, Prescott