It was first named alpha by Lee Cronbach in 1951, as he had intended to continue with further coefficients.
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Cronbach's alpha, a coefficient of reliability developed by Lee Cronbach
His modesty is perhaps one of the reasons that the generalization of the Kuder-Richardson's (1937) formulation of the coefficient of internal consistency reliability to a continuous case is generally ascribed to Lee Cronbach (1951), even though this generalization was already made a decade earlier (Hoyt, 1941).