github.com/jwhonce/docker@v0.6.7-0.20190327063223-da823cf3a5a3/pkg/namesgenerator/names-generator.go (about) 1 package namesgenerator // import "github.com/docker/docker/pkg/namesgenerator" 2 3 import ( 4 "fmt" 5 "math/rand" 6 ) 7 8 var ( 9 left = [...]string{ 10 "admiring", 11 "adoring", 12 "affectionate", 13 "agitated", 14 "amazing", 15 "angry", 16 "awesome", 17 "beautiful", 18 "blissful", 19 "bold", 20 "boring", 21 "brave", 22 "busy", 23 "charming", 24 "clever", 25 "cocky", 26 "cool", 27 "compassionate", 28 "competent", 29 "condescending", 30 "confident", 31 "cranky", 32 "crazy", 33 "dazzling", 34 "determined", 35 "distracted", 36 "dreamy", 37 "eager", 38 "ecstatic", 39 "elastic", 40 "elated", 41 "elegant", 42 "eloquent", 43 "epic", 44 "exciting", 45 "fervent", 46 "festive", 47 "flamboyant", 48 "focused", 49 "friendly", 50 "frosty", 51 "funny", 52 "gallant", 53 "gifted", 54 "goofy", 55 "gracious", 56 "great", 57 "happy", 58 "hardcore", 59 "heuristic", 60 "hopeful", 61 "hungry", 62 "infallible", 63 "inspiring", 64 "interesting", 65 "intelligent", 66 "jolly", 67 "jovial", 68 "keen", 69 "kind", 70 "laughing", 71 "loving", 72 "lucid", 73 "magical", 74 "mystifying", 75 "modest", 76 "musing", 77 "naughty", 78 "nervous", 79 "nice", 80 "nifty", 81 "nostalgic", 82 "objective", 83 "optimistic", 84 "peaceful", 85 "pedantic", 86 "pensive", 87 "practical", 88 "priceless", 89 "quirky", 90 "quizzical", 91 "recursing", 92 "relaxed", 93 "reverent", 94 "romantic", 95 "sad", 96 "serene", 97 "sharp", 98 "silly", 99 "sleepy", 100 "stoic", 101 "strange", 102 "stupefied", 103 "suspicious", 104 "sweet", 105 "tender", 106 "thirsty", 107 "trusting", 108 "unruffled", 109 "upbeat", 110 "vibrant", 111 "vigilant", 112 "vigorous", 113 "wizardly", 114 "wonderful", 115 "xenodochial", 116 "youthful", 117 "zealous", 118 "zen", 119 } 120 121 // Docker, starting from 0.7.x, generates names from notable scientists and hackers. 122 // Please, for any amazing man that you add to the list, consider adding an equally amazing woman to it, and vice versa. 123 right = [...]string{ 124 // Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Ḥarrānī al-Battānī was a founding father of astronomy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu%E1%B8%A5ammad_ibn_J%C4%81bir_al-%E1%B8%A4arr%C4%81n%C4%AB_al-Batt%C4%81n%C4%AB 125 "albattani", 126 127 // Frances E. Allen, became the first female IBM Fellow in 1989. In 2006, she became the first female recipient of the ACM's Turing Award. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_E._Allen 128 "allen", 129 130 // June Almeida - Scottish virologist who took the first pictures of the rubella virus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Almeida 131 "almeida", 132 133 // Kathleen Antonelli, American computer programmer and one of the six original programmers of the ENIAC - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Antonelli 134 "antonelli", 135 136 // Maria Gaetana Agnesi - Italian mathematician, philosopher, theologian and humanitarian. She was the first woman to write a mathematics handbook and the first woman appointed as a Mathematics Professor at a University. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Gaetana_Agnesi 137 "agnesi", 138 139 // Archimedes was a physicist, engineer and mathematician who invented too many things to list them here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes 140 "archimedes", 141 142 // Maria Ardinghelli - Italian translator, mathematician and physicist - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ardinghelli 143 "ardinghelli", 144 145 // Aryabhata - Ancient Indian mathematician-astronomer during 476-550 CE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryabhata 146 "aryabhata", 147 148 // Wanda Austin - Wanda Austin is the President and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation, a leading architect for the US security space programs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Austin 149 "austin", 150 151 // Charles Babbage invented the concept of a programmable computer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage. 152 "babbage", 153 154 // Stefan Banach - Polish mathematician, was one of the founders of modern functional analysis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Banach 155 "banach", 156 157 // Buckaroo Banzai and his mentor Dr. Hikita perfectd the "oscillation overthruster", a device that allows one to pass through solid matter. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Buckaroo_Banzai_Across_the_8th_Dimension 158 "banzai", 159 160 // John Bardeen co-invented the transistor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bardeen 161 "bardeen", 162 163 // Jean Bartik, born Betty Jean Jennings, was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Bartik 164 "bartik", 165 166 // Laura Bassi, the world's first female professor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Bassi 167 "bassi", 168 169 // Hugh Beaver, British engineer, founder of the Guinness Book of World Records https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Beaver 170 "beaver", 171 172 // Alexander Graham Bell - an eminent Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell 173 "bell", 174 175 // Karl Friedrich Benz - a German automobile engineer. Inventor of the first practical motorcar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Benz 176 "benz", 177 178 // Homi J Bhabha - was an Indian nuclear physicist, founding director, and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Colloquially known as "father of Indian nuclear programme"- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homi_J._Bhabha 179 "bhabha", 180 181 // Bhaskara II - Ancient Indian mathematician-astronomer whose work on calculus predates Newton and Leibniz by over half a millennium - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bh%C4%81skara_II#Calculus 182 "bhaskara", 183 184 // Sue Black - British computer scientist and campaigner. She has been instrumental in saving Bletchley Park, the site of World War II codebreaking - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Black_(computer_scientist) 185 "black", 186 187 // Elizabeth Helen Blackburn - Australian-American Nobel laureate; best known for co-discovering telomerase. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Blackburn 188 "blackburn", 189 190 // Elizabeth Blackwell - American doctor and first American woman to receive a medical degree - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Blackwell 191 "blackwell", 192 193 // Niels Bohr is the father of quantum theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr. 194 "bohr", 195 196 // Kathleen Booth, she's credited with writing the first assembly language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Booth 197 "booth", 198 199 // Anita Borg - Anita Borg was the founding director of the Institute for Women and Technology (IWT). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Borg 200 "borg", 201 202 // Satyendra Nath Bose - He provided the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyendra_Nath_Bose 203 "bose", 204 205 // Evelyn Boyd Granville - She was one of the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics; she earned it in 1949 from Yale University. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Boyd_Granville 206 "boyd", 207 208 // Brahmagupta - Ancient Indian mathematician during 598-670 CE who gave rules to compute with zero - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmagupta#Zero 209 "brahmagupta", 210 211 // Walter Houser Brattain co-invented the transistor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Houser_Brattain 212 "brattain", 213 214 // Emmett Brown invented time travel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Brown (thanks Brian Goff) 215 "brown", 216 217 // Linda Brown Buck - American biologist and Nobel laureate best known for her genetic and molecular analyses of the mechanisms of smell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_B._Buck 218 "buck", 219 220 // Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell - Northern Irish astrophysicist who discovered radio pulsars and was the first to analyse them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell 221 "burnell", 222 223 // Annie Jump Cannon - pioneering female astronomer who classified hundreds of thousands of stars and created the system we use to understand stars today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Jump_Cannon 224 "cannon", 225 226 // Rachel Carson - American marine biologist and conservationist, her book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson 227 "carson", 228 229 // Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright - British mathematician who was one of the first to study what is now known as chaos theory. Also known for Cartwright's theorem which finds applications in signal processing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cartwright 230 "cartwright", 231 232 // Vinton Gray Cerf - American Internet pioneer, recognised as one of "the fathers of the Internet". With Robert Elliot Kahn, he designed TCP and IP, the primary data communication protocols of the Internet and other computer networks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf 233 "cerf", 234 235 // Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - Astrophysicist known for his mathematical theory on different stages and evolution in structures of the stars. He has won nobel prize for physics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subrahmanyan_Chandrasekhar 236 "chandrasekhar", 237 238 // Sergey Alexeyevich Chaplygin (Russian: Серге́й Алексе́евич Чаплы́гин; April 5, 1869 – October 8, 1942) was a Russian and Soviet physicist, mathematician, and mechanical engineer. He is known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Chaplygin 239 "chaplygin", 240 241 // Émilie du Châtelet - French natural philosopher, mathematician, physicist, and author during the early 1730s, known for her translation of and commentary on Isaac Newton's book Principia containing basic laws of physics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89milie_du_Ch%C3%A2telet 242 "chatelet", 243 244 // Asima Chatterjee was an Indian organic chemist noted for her research on vinca alkaloids, development of drugs for treatment of epilepsy and malaria - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asima_Chatterjee 245 "chatterjee", 246 247 // Pafnuty Chebyshev - Russian mathematician. He is known fo his works on probability, statistics, mechanics, analytical geometry and number theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pafnuty_Chebyshev 248 "chebyshev", 249 250 // Bram Cohen - American computer programmer and author of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen 251 "cohen", 252 253 // David Lee Chaum - American computer scientist and cryptographer. Known for his seminal contributions in the field of anonymous communication. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chaum 254 "chaum", 255 256 // Joan Clarke - Bletchley Park code breaker during the Second World War who pioneered techniques that remained top secret for decades. Also an accomplished numismatist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Clarke 257 "clarke", 258 259 // Jane Colden - American botanist widely considered the first female American botanist - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Colden 260 "colden", 261 262 // Gerty Theresa Cori - American biochemist who became the third woman—and first American woman—to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Cori was born in Prague. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerty_Cori 263 "cori", 264 265 // Seymour Roger Cray was an American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray 266 "cray", 267 268 // This entry reflects a husband and wife team who worked together: 269 // Joan Curran was a Welsh scientist who developed radar and invented chaff, a radar countermeasure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Curran 270 // Samuel Curran was an Irish physicist who worked alongside his wife during WWII and invented the proximity fuse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Curran 271 "curran", 272 273 // Marie Curie discovered radioactivity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie. 274 "curie", 275 276 // Charles Darwin established the principles of natural evolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin. 277 "darwin", 278 279 // Leonardo Da Vinci invented too many things to list here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci. 280 "davinci", 281 282 // A. K. (Alexander Keewatin) Dewdney, Canadian mathematician, computer scientist, author and filmmaker. Contributor to Scientific American's "Computer Recreations" from 1984 to 1991. Author of Core War (program), The Planiverse, The Armchair Universe, The Magic Machine, The New Turing Omnibus, and more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Dewdney 283 "dewdney", 284 285 // Satish Dhawan - Indian mathematician and aerospace engineer, known for leading the successful and indigenous development of the Indian space programme. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satish_Dhawan 286 "dhawan", 287 288 // Bailey Whitfield Diffie - American cryptographer and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitfield_Diffie 289 "diffie", 290 291 // Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was a Dutch computer scientist and mathematical scientist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra. 292 "dijkstra", 293 294 // Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac - English theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac 295 "dirac", 296 297 // Agnes Meyer Driscoll - American cryptanalyst during World Wars I and II who successfully cryptanalysed a number of Japanese ciphers. She was also the co-developer of one of the cipher machines of the US Navy, the CM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Meyer_Driscoll 298 "driscoll", 299 300 // Donna Dubinsky - played an integral role in the development of personal digital assistants (PDAs) serving as CEO of Palm, Inc. and co-founding Handspring. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Dubinsky 301 "dubinsky", 302 303 // Annie Easley - She was a leading member of the team which developed software for the Centaur rocket stage and one of the first African-Americans in her field. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Easley 304 "easley", 305 306 // Thomas Alva Edison, prolific inventor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison 307 "edison", 308 309 // Albert Einstein invented the general theory of relativity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein 310 "einstein", 311 312 // Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan (Russian: Алекса́ндра Аса́новна Элбакя́н) is a Kazakhstani graduate student, computer programmer, internet pirate in hiding, and the creator of the site Sci-Hub. Nature has listed her in 2016 in the top ten people that mattered in science, and Ars Technica has compared her to Aaron Swartz. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan 313 "elbakyan", 314 315 // Taher A. ElGamal - Egyptian cryptographer best known for the ElGamal discrete log cryptosystem and the ElGamal digital signature scheme. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taher_Elgamal 316 "elgamal", 317 318 // Gertrude Elion - American biochemist, pharmacologist and the 1988 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Elion 319 "elion", 320 321 // James Henry Ellis - British engineer and cryptographer employed by the GCHQ. Best known for conceiving for the first time, the idea of public-key cryptography. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Ellis 322 "ellis", 323 324 // Douglas Engelbart gave the mother of all demos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart 325 "engelbart", 326 327 // Euclid invented geometry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid 328 "euclid", 329 330 // Leonhard Euler invented large parts of modern mathematics. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler 331 "euler", 332 333 // Michael Faraday - British scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Faraday 334 "faraday", 335 336 // Horst Feistel - German-born American cryptographer who was one of the earliest non-government researchers to study the design and theory of block ciphers. Co-developer of DES and Lucifer. Feistel networks, a symmetric structure used in the construction of block ciphers are named after him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Feistel 337 "feistel", 338 339 // Pierre de Fermat pioneered several aspects of modern mathematics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Fermat 340 "fermat", 341 342 // Enrico Fermi invented the first nuclear reactor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi. 343 "fermi", 344 345 // Richard Feynman was a key contributor to quantum mechanics and particle physics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman 346 "feynman", 347 348 // Benjamin Franklin is famous for his experiments in electricity and the invention of the lightning rod. 349 "franklin", 350 351 // Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin - Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, best known as the first human to journey into outer space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin 352 "gagarin", 353 354 // Galileo was a founding father of modern astronomy, and faced politics and obscurantism to establish scientific truth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei 355 "galileo", 356 357 // Évariste Galois - French mathematician whose work laid the foundations of Galois theory and group theory, two major branches of abstract algebra, and the subfield of Galois connections, all while still in his late teens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89variste_Galois 358 "galois", 359 360 // Kadambini Ganguly - Indian physician, known for being the first South Asian female physician, trained in western medicine, to graduate in South Asia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadambini_Ganguly 361 "ganguly", 362 363 // William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates 364 "gates", 365 366 // Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss - German mathematician who made significant contributions to many fields, including number theory, algebra, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, mechanics, electrostatics, magnetic fields, astronomy, matrix theory, and optics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss 367 "gauss", 368 369 // Marie-Sophie Germain - French mathematician, physicist and philosopher. Known for her work on elasticity theory, number theory and philosophy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Germain 370 "germain", 371 372 // Adele Goldberg, was one of the designers and developers of the Smalltalk language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Goldberg_(computer_scientist) 373 "goldberg", 374 375 // Adele Goldstine, born Adele Katz, wrote the complete technical description for the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Goldstine 376 "goldstine", 377 378 // Shafi Goldwasser is a computer scientist known for creating theoretical foundations of modern cryptography. Winner of 2012 ACM Turing Award. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shafi_Goldwasser 379 "goldwasser", 380 381 // James Golick, all around gangster. 382 "golick", 383 384 // Jane Goodall - British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist who is considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall 385 "goodall", 386 387 // Stephen Jay Gould was was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He is most famous for the theory of punctuated equilibrium - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Jay_Gould 388 "gould", 389 390 // Carolyn Widney Greider - American molecular biologist and joint winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of telomerase. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_W._Greider 391 "greider", 392 393 // Alexander Grothendieck - German-born French mathematician who became a leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck 394 "grothendieck", 395 396 // Lois Haibt - American computer scientist, part of the team at IBM that developed FORTRAN - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Haibt 397 "haibt", 398 399 // Margaret Hamilton - Director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for the Apollo space program. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(scientist) 400 "hamilton", 401 402 // Caroline Harriet Haslett - English electrical engineer, electricity industry administrator and champion of women's rights. Co-author of British Standard 1363 that specifies AC power plugs and sockets used across the United Kingdom (which is widely considered as one of the safest designs). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Haslett 403 "haslett", 404 405 // Stephen Hawking pioneered the field of cosmology by combining general relativity and quantum mechanics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking 406 "hawking", 407 408 // Martin Edward Hellman - American cryptologist, best known for his invention of public-key cryptography in co-operation with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Hellman 409 "hellman", 410 411 // Werner Heisenberg was a founding father of quantum mechanics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg 412 "heisenberg", 413 414 // Grete Hermann was a German philosopher noted for her philosophical work on the foundations of quantum mechanics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grete_Hermann 415 "hermann", 416 417 // Caroline Lucretia Herschel - German astronomer and discoverer of several comets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Herschel 418 "herschel", 419 420 // Heinrich Rudolf Hertz - German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Hertz 421 "hertz", 422 423 // Jaroslav Heyrovský was the inventor of the polarographic method, father of the electroanalytical method, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1959. His main field of work was polarography. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaroslav_Heyrovsk%C3%BD 424 "heyrovsky", 425 426 // Dorothy Hodgkin was a British biochemist, credited with the development of protein crystallography. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Hodgkin 427 "hodgkin", 428 429 // Douglas R. Hofstadter is an American professor of cognitive science and author of the Pulitzer Prize and American Book Award-winning work Goedel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid in 1979. A mind-bending work which coined Hofstadter's Law: "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter 430 "hofstadter", 431 432 // Erna Schneider Hoover revolutionized modern communication by inventing a computerized telephone switching method. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erna_Schneider_Hoover 433 "hoover", 434 435 // Grace Hopper developed the first compiler for a computer programming language and is credited with popularizing the term "debugging" for fixing computer glitches. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper 436 "hopper", 437 438 // Frances Hugle, she was an American scientist, engineer, and inventor who contributed to the understanding of semiconductors, integrated circuitry, and the unique electrical principles of microscopic materials. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Hugle 439 "hugle", 440 441 // Hypatia - Greek Alexandrine Neoplatonist philosopher in Egypt who was one of the earliest mothers of mathematics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia 442 "hypatia", 443 444 // Teruko Ishizaka - Japanese scientist and immunologist who co-discovered the antibody class Immunoglobulin E. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teruko_Ishizaka 445 "ishizaka", 446 447 // Mary Jackson, American mathematician and aerospace engineer who earned the highest title within NASA's engineering department - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jackson_(engineer) 448 "jackson", 449 450 // Yeong-Sil Jang was a Korean scientist and astronomer during the Joseon Dynasty; he invented the first metal printing press and water gauge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jang_Yeong-sil 451 "jang", 452 453 // Betty Jennings - one of the original programmers of the ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Bartik 454 "jennings", 455 456 // Mary Lou Jepsen, was the founder and chief technology officer of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), and the founder of Pixel Qi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lou_Jepsen 457 "jepsen", 458 459 // Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson - American physicist and mathematician contributed to the NASA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Johnson 460 "johnson", 461 462 // Irène Joliot-Curie - French scientist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1935. Daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ir%C3%A8ne_Joliot-Curie 463 "joliot", 464 465 // Karen Spärck Jones came up with the concept of inverse document frequency, which is used in most search engines today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Sp%C3%A4rck_Jones 466 "jones", 467 468 // A. P. J. Abdul Kalam - is an Indian scientist aka Missile Man of India for his work on the development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._P._J._Abdul_Kalam 469 "kalam", 470 471 // Sergey Petrovich Kapitsa (Russian: Серге́й Петро́вич Капи́ца; 14 February 1928 – 14 August 2012) was a Russian physicist and demographer. He was best known as host of the popular and long-running Russian scientific TV show, Evident, but Incredible. His father was the Nobel laureate Soviet-era physicist Pyotr Kapitsa, and his brother was the geographer and Antarctic explorer Andrey Kapitsa. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Kapitsa 472 "kapitsa", 473 474 // Susan Kare, created the icons and many of the interface elements for the original Apple Macintosh in the 1980s, and was an original employee of NeXT, working as the Creative Director. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Kare 475 "kare", 476 477 // Mstislav Keldysh - a Soviet scientist in the field of mathematics and mechanics, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1946), President of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1961–1975), three times Hero of Socialist Labor (1956, 1961, 1971), fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1968). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mstislav_Keldysh 478 "keldysh", 479 480 // Mary Kenneth Keller, Sister Mary Kenneth Keller became the first American woman to earn a PhD in Computer Science in 1965. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kenneth_Keller 481 "keller", 482 483 // Johannes Kepler, German astronomer known for his three laws of planetary motion - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler 484 "kepler", 485 486 // Omar Khayyam - Persian mathematician, astronomer and poet. Known for his work on the classification and solution of cubic equations, for his contribution to the understanding of Euclid's fifth postulate and for computing the length of a year very accurately. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khayyam 487 "khayyam", 488 489 // Har Gobind Khorana - Indian-American biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Har_Gobind_Khorana 490 "khorana", 491 492 // Jack Kilby invented silicone integrated circuits and gave Silicon Valley its name. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kilby 493 "kilby", 494 495 // Maria Kirch - German astronomer and first woman to discover a comet - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Margarethe_Kirch 496 "kirch", 497 498 // Donald Knuth - American computer scientist, author of "The Art of Computer Programming" and creator of the TeX typesetting system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth 499 "knuth", 500 501 // Sophie Kowalevski - Russian mathematician responsible for important original contributions to analysis, differential equations and mechanics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Kovalevskaya 502 "kowalevski", 503 504 // Marie-Jeanne de Lalande - French astronomer, mathematician and cataloguer of stars - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Jeanne_de_Lalande 505 "lalande", 506 507 // Hedy Lamarr - Actress and inventor. The principles of her work are now incorporated into modern Wi-Fi, CDMA and Bluetooth technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr 508 "lamarr", 509 510 // Leslie B. Lamport - American computer scientist. Lamport is best known for his seminal work in distributed systems and was the winner of the 2013 Turing Award. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Lamport 511 "lamport", 512 513 // Mary Leakey - British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilized Proconsul skull - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Leakey 514 "leakey", 515 516 // Henrietta Swan Leavitt - she was an American astronomer who discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Swan_Leavitt 517 "leavitt", 518 519 // Esther Miriam Zimmer Lederberg - American microbiologist and a pioneer of bacterial genetics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Lederberg 520 "lederberg", 521 522 // Inge Lehmann - Danish seismologist and geophysicist. Known for discovering in 1936 that the Earth has a solid inner core inside a molten outer core. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inge_Lehmann 523 "lehmann", 524 525 // Daniel Lewin - Mathematician, Akamai co-founder, soldier, 9/11 victim-- Developed optimization techniques for routing traffic on the internet. Died attempting to stop the 9-11 hijackers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lewin 526 "lewin", 527 528 // Ruth Lichterman - one of the original programmers of the ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Teitelbaum 529 "lichterman", 530 531 // Barbara Liskov - co-developed the Liskov substitution principle. Liskov was also the winner of the Turing Prize in 2008. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Liskov 532 "liskov", 533 534 // Ada Lovelace invented the first algorithm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace (thanks James Turnbull) 535 "lovelace", 536 537 // Auguste and Louis Lumière - the first filmmakers in history - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_and_Louis_Lumi%C3%A8re 538 "lumiere", 539 540 // Mahavira - Ancient Indian mathematician during 9th century AD who discovered basic algebraic identities - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah%C4%81v%C4%ABra_(mathematician) 541 "mahavira", 542 543 // Lynn Margulis (b. Lynn Petra Alexander) - an American evolutionary theorist and biologist, science author, educator, and popularizer, and was the primary modern proponent for the significance of symbiosis in evolution. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Margulis 544 "margulis", 545 546 // Yukihiro Matsumoto - Japanese computer scientist and software programmer best known as the chief designer of the Ruby programming language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihiro_Matsumoto 547 "matsumoto", 548 549 // James Clerk Maxwell - Scottish physicist, best known for his formulation of electromagnetic theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell 550 "maxwell", 551 552 // Maria Mayer - American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Mayer 553 "mayer", 554 555 // John McCarthy invented LISP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist) 556 "mccarthy", 557 558 // Barbara McClintock - a distinguished American cytogeneticist, 1983 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine for discovering transposons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McClintock 559 "mcclintock", 560 561 // Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren - British developmental biologist whose work helped lead to human in-vitro fertilisation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_McLaren 562 "mclaren", 563 564 // Malcolm McLean invented the modern shipping container: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcom_McLean 565 "mclean", 566 567 // Kay McNulty - one of the original programmers of the ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Antonelli 568 "mcnulty", 569 570 // Gregor Johann Mendel - Czech scientist and founder of genetics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Mendel 571 "mendel", 572 573 // Dmitri Mendeleev - a chemist and inventor. He formulated the Periodic Law, created a farsighted version of the periodic table of elements, and used it to correct the properties of some already discovered elements and also to predict the properties of eight elements yet to be discovered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Mendeleev 574 "mendeleev", 575 576 // Lise Meitner - Austrian/Swedish physicist who was involved in the discovery of nuclear fission. The element meitnerium is named after her - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner 577 "meitner", 578 579 // Carla Meninsky, was the game designer and programmer for Atari 2600 games Dodge 'Em and Warlords. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla_Meninsky 580 "meninsky", 581 582 // Ralph C. Merkle - American computer scientist, known for devising Merkle's puzzles - one of the very first schemes for public-key cryptography. Also, inventor of Merkle trees and co-inventor of the Merkle-Damgård construction for building collision-resistant cryptographic hash functions and the Merkle-Hellman knapsack cryptosystem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Merkle 583 "merkle", 584 585 // Johanna Mestorf - German prehistoric archaeologist and first female museum director in Germany - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna_Mestorf 586 "mestorf", 587 588 // Marvin Minsky - Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, co-founder of the MIT's AI Lab, won the Turing Award in 1969. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky 589 "minsky", 590 591 // Maryam Mirzakhani - an Iranian mathematician and the first woman to win the Fields Medal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Mirzakhani 592 "mirzakhani", 593 594 // Gordon Earle Moore - American engineer, Silicon Valley founding father, author of Moore's law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Moore 595 "moore", 596 597 // Samuel Morse - contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs and was a co-developer of the Morse code - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Morse 598 "morse", 599 600 // Ian Murdock - founder of the Debian project - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Murdock 601 "murdock", 602 603 // May-Britt Moser - Nobel prize winner neuroscientist who contributed to the discovery of grid cells in the brain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May-Britt_Moser 604 "moser", 605 606 // John Napier of Merchiston - Scottish landowner known as an astronomer, mathematician and physicist. Best known for his discovery of logarithms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Napier 607 "napier", 608 609 // John Forbes Nash, Jr. - American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, differential geometry, and the study of partial differential equations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash_Jr. 610 "nash", 611 612 // John von Neumann - todays computer architectures are based on the von Neumann architecture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture 613 "neumann", 614 615 // Isaac Newton invented classic mechanics and modern optics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton 616 "newton", 617 618 // Florence Nightingale, more prominently known as a nurse, was also the first female member of the Royal Statistical Society and a pioneer in statistical graphics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale#Statistics_and_sanitary_reform 619 "nightingale", 620 621 // Alfred Nobel - a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer (inventor of dynamite) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel 622 "nobel", 623 624 // Emmy Noether, German mathematician. Noether's Theorem is named after her. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether 625 "noether", 626 627 // Poppy Northcutt. Poppy Northcutt was the first woman to work as part of NASA’s Mission Control. http://www.businessinsider.com/poppy-northcutt-helped-apollo-astronauts-2014-12?op=1 628 "northcutt", 629 630 // Robert Noyce invented silicone integrated circuits and gave Silicon Valley its name. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Noyce 631 "noyce", 632 633 // Panini - Ancient Indian linguist and grammarian from 4th century CE who worked on the world's first formal system - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini#Comparison_with_modern_formal_systems 634 "panini", 635 636 // Ambroise Pare invented modern surgery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambroise_Par%C3%A9 637 "pare", 638 639 // Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and inventor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal 640 "pascal", 641 642 // Louis Pasteur discovered vaccination, fermentation and pasteurization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur. 643 "pasteur", 644 645 // Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was an astronomer and astrophysicist who, in 1925, proposed in her Ph.D. thesis an explanation for the composition of stars in terms of the relative abundances of hydrogen and helium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin 646 "payne", 647 648 // Radia Perlman is a software designer and network engineer and most famous for her invention of the spanning-tree protocol (STP). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_Perlman 649 "perlman", 650 651 // Rob Pike was a key contributor to Unix, Plan 9, the X graphic system, utf-8, and the Go programming language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike 652 "pike", 653 654 // Henri Poincaré made fundamental contributions in several fields of mathematics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9 655 "poincare", 656 657 // Laura Poitras is a director and producer whose work, made possible by open source crypto tools, advances the causes of truth and freedom of information by reporting disclosures by whistleblowers such as Edward Snowden. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Poitras 658 "poitras", 659 660 // Tat’yana Avenirovna Proskuriakova (Russian: Татья́на Авени́ровна Проскуряко́ва) (January 23 [O.S. January 10] 1909 – August 30, 1985) was a Russian-American Mayanist scholar and archaeologist who contributed significantly to the deciphering of Maya hieroglyphs, the writing system of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatiana_Proskouriakoff 661 "proskuriakova", 662 663 // Claudius Ptolemy - a Greco-Egyptian writer of Alexandria, known as a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy 664 "ptolemy", 665 666 // C. V. Raman - Indian physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1930 for proposing the Raman effect. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._V._Raman 667 "raman", 668 669 // Srinivasa Ramanujan - Indian mathematician and autodidact who made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan 670 "ramanujan", 671 672 // Sally Kristen Ride was an American physicist and astronaut. She was the first American woman in space, and the youngest American astronaut. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Ride 673 "ride", 674 675 // Rita Levi-Montalcini - Won Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with colleague Stanley Cohen for the discovery of nerve growth factor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Levi-Montalcini) 676 "montalcini", 677 678 // Dennis Ritchie - co-creator of UNIX and the C programming language. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie 679 "ritchie", 680 681 // Ida Rhodes - American pioneer in computer programming, designed the first computer used for Social Security. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Rhodes 682 "rhodes", 683 684 // Julia Hall Bowman Robinson - American mathematician renowned for her contributions to the fields of computability theory and computational complexity theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Robinson 685 "robinson", 686 687 // Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen - German physicist who was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 for the discovery of X-rays (Röntgen rays). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_R%C3%B6ntgen 688 "roentgen", 689 690 // Rosalind Franklin - British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer whose research was critical to the understanding of DNA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin 691 "rosalind", 692 693 // Vera Rubin - American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin 694 "rubin", 695 696 // Meghnad Saha - Indian astrophysicist best known for his development of the Saha equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meghnad_Saha 697 "saha", 698 699 // Jean E. Sammet developed FORMAC, the first widely used computer language for symbolic manipulation of mathematical formulas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_E._Sammet 700 "sammet", 701 702 // Mildred Sanderson - American mathematician best known for Sanderson's theorem concerning modular invariants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Sanderson 703 "sanderson", 704 705 // Adi Shamir - Israeli cryptographer whose numerous inventions and contributions to cryptography include the Ferge Fiat Shamir identification scheme, the Rivest Shamir Adleman (RSA) public-key cryptosystem, the Shamir's secret sharing scheme, the breaking of the Merkle-Hellman cryptosystem, the TWINKLE and TWIRL factoring devices and the discovery of differential cryptanalysis (with Eli Biham). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Shamir 706 "shamir", 707 708 // Claude Shannon - The father of information theory and founder of digital circuit design theory. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon) 709 "shannon", 710 711 // Carol Shaw - Originally an Atari employee, Carol Shaw is said to be the first female video game designer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Shaw_(video_game_designer) 712 "shaw", 713 714 // Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley - Founded a software company in 1962 employing women working from home. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Shirley 715 "shirley", 716 717 // William Shockley co-invented the transistor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley 718 "shockley", 719 720 // Lina Solomonovna Stern (or Shtern; Russian: Лина Соломоновна Штерн; 26 August 1878 – 7 March 1968) was a Soviet biochemist, physiologist and humanist whose medical discoveries saved thousands of lives at the fronts of World War II. She is best known for her pioneering work on blood–brain barrier, which she described as hemato-encephalic barrier in 1921. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Stern 721 "shtern", 722 723 // Françoise Barré-Sinoussi - French virologist and Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine; her work was fundamental in identifying HIV as the cause of AIDS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise_Barr%C3%A9-Sinoussi 724 "sinoussi", 725 726 // Betty Snyder - one of the original programmers of the ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Holberton 727 "snyder", 728 729 // Cynthia Solomon - Pioneer in the fields of artificial intelligence, computer science and educational computing. Known for creation of Logo, an educational programming language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Solomon 730 "solomon", 731 732 // Frances Spence - one of the original programmers of the ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Spence 733 "spence", 734 735 // Richard Matthew Stallman - the founder of the Free Software movement, the GNU project, the Free Software Foundation, and the League for Programming Freedom. He also invented the concept of copyleft to protect the ideals of this movement, and enshrined this concept in the widely-used GPL (General Public License) for software. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman 736 "stallman", 737 738 // Michael Stonebraker is a database research pioneer and architect of Ingres, Postgres, VoltDB and SciDB. Winner of 2014 ACM Turing Award. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stonebraker 739 "stonebraker", 740 741 // Ivan Edward Sutherland - American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, widely regarded as the father of computer graphics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Sutherland 742 "sutherland", 743 744 // Janese Swanson (with others) developed the first of the Carmen Sandiego games. She went on to found Girl Tech. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janese_Swanson 745 "swanson", 746 747 // Aaron Swartz was influential in creating RSS, Markdown, Creative Commons, Reddit, and much of the internet as we know it today. He was devoted to freedom of information on the web. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz 748 "swartz", 749 750 // Bertha Swirles was a theoretical physicist who made a number of contributions to early quantum theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Swirles 751 "swirles", 752 753 // Helen Brooke Taussig - American cardiologist and founder of the field of paediatric cardiology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_B._Taussig 754 "taussig", 755 756 // Valentina Tereshkova is a Russian engineer, cosmonaut and politician. She was the first woman to fly to space in 1963. In 2013, at the age of 76, she offered to go on a one-way mission to Mars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova 757 "tereshkova", 758 759 // Nikola Tesla invented the AC electric system and every gadget ever used by a James Bond villain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla 760 "tesla", 761 762 // Marie Tharp - American geologist and oceanic cartographer who co-created the first scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean floor. Her work led to the acceptance of the theories of plate tectonics and continental drift. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Tharp 763 "tharp", 764 765 // Ken Thompson - co-creator of UNIX and the C programming language - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson 766 "thompson", 767 768 // Linus Torvalds invented Linux and Git. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds 769 "torvalds", 770 771 // Youyou Tu - Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and educator known for discovering artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, which has saved millions of lives. Joint winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_Youyou 772 "tu", 773 774 // Alan Turing was a founding father of computer science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing. 775 "turing", 776 777 // Varahamihira - Ancient Indian mathematician who discovered trigonometric formulae during 505-587 CE - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Var%C4%81hamihira#Contributions 778 "varahamihira", 779 780 // Dorothy Vaughan was a NASA mathematician and computer programmer on the SCOUT launch vehicle program that put America's first satellites into space - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Vaughan 781 "vaughan", 782 783 // Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya - is a notable Indian engineer. He is a recipient of the Indian Republic's highest honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1955. On his birthday, 15 September is celebrated as Engineer's Day in India in his memory - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visvesvaraya 784 "visvesvaraya", 785 786 // Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard - German biologist, won Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995 for research on the genetic control of embryonic development. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiane_N%C3%BCsslein-Volhard 787 "volhard", 788 789 // Cédric Villani - French mathematician, won Fields Medal, Fermat Prize and Poincaré Price for his work in differential geometry and statistical mechanics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9dric_Villani 790 "villani", 791 792 // Marlyn Wescoff - one of the original programmers of the ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlyn_Meltzer 793 "wescoff", 794 795 // Sylvia B. Wilbur - British computer scientist who helped develop the ARPANET, was one of the first to exchange email in the UK and a leading researcher in computer-supported collaborative work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Wilbur 796 "wilbur", 797 798 // Andrew Wiles - Notable British mathematician who proved the enigmatic Fermat's Last Theorem - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wiles 799 "wiles", 800 801 // Roberta Williams, did pioneering work in graphical adventure games for personal computers, particularly the King's Quest series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta_Williams 802 "williams", 803 804 // Malcolm John Williamson - British mathematician and cryptographer employed by the GCHQ. Developed in 1974 what is now known as Diffie-Hellman key exchange (Diffie and Hellman first published the scheme in 1976). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_J._Williamson 805 "williamson", 806 807 // Sophie Wilson designed the first Acorn Micro-Computer and the instruction set for ARM processors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson 808 "wilson", 809 810 // Jeannette Wing - co-developed the Liskov substitution principle. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Wing 811 "wing", 812 813 // Steve Wozniak invented the Apple I and Apple II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak 814 "wozniak", 815 816 // The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur - credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers 817 "wright", 818 819 // Chien-Shiung Wu - Chinese-American experimental physicist who made significant contributions to nuclear physics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chien-Shiung_Wu 820 "wu", 821 822 // Rosalyn Sussman Yalow - Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for development of the radioimmunoassay technique. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalyn_Sussman_Yalow 823 "yalow", 824 825 // Ada Yonath - an Israeli crystallographer, the first woman from the Middle East to win a Nobel prize in the sciences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Yonath 826 "yonath", 827 828 // Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky (Russian: Никола́й Его́рович Жуко́вский, January 17 1847 – March 17, 1921) was a Russian scientist, mathematician and engineer, and a founding father of modern aero- and hydrodynamics. Whereas contemporary scientists scoffed at the idea of human flight, Zhukovsky was the first to undertake the study of airflow. He is often called the Father of Russian Aviation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Yegorovich_Zhukovsky 829 "zhukovsky", 830 } 831 ) 832 833 // GetRandomName generates a random name from the list of adjectives and surnames in this package 834 // formatted as "adjective_surname". For example 'focused_turing'. If retry is non-zero, a random 835 // integer between 0 and 10 will be added to the end of the name, e.g `focused_turing3` 836 func GetRandomName(retry int) string { 837 begin: 838 name := fmt.Sprintf("%s_%s", left[rand.Intn(len(left))], right[rand.Intn(len(right))]) 839 if name == "boring_wozniak" /* Steve Wozniak is not boring */ { 840 goto begin 841 } 842 843 if retry > 0 { 844 name = fmt.Sprintf("%s%d", name, rand.Intn(10)) 845 } 846 return name 847 }