github.com/nats-io/nsc/v2@v2.8.7-0.20240307184528-efd7023c6896/cmd/names_generator.go (about) 1 /* 2 Copied from "github.com/moby/moby/pkg/namesgenerator" at 3 8422e6f6fa04eb8ee805a98067ee490a86ce3b98. 4 5 Apache license 6 7 Notice file ... 8 Docker 9 Copyright 2012-2017 Docker, Inc. 10 11 This product includes software developed at Docker, Inc. (https://www.docker.com). 12 13 This product contains software (https://github.com/kr/pty) developed 14 by Keith Rarick, licensed under the MIT License. 15 16 The following is courtesy of our legal counsel: 17 18 19 Use and transfer of Docker may be subject to certain restrictions by the 20 United States and other governments. 21 It is your responsibility to ensure that your use and/or transfer does not 22 violate applicable laws. 23 24 For more information, please see https://www.bis.doc.gov 25 26 See also https://www.apache.org/dev/crypto.html and/or seek legal counsel. 27 */ 28 29 package cmd 30 31 import ( 32 "fmt" 33 "math/rand" 34 ) 35 36 var ( 37 left = [...]string{ 38 "admiring", 39 "adoring", 40 "affectionate", 41 "agitated", 42 "amazing", 43 "angry", 44 "awesome", 45 "blissful", 46 "bold", 47 "boring", 48 "brave", 49 "charming", 50 "clever", 51 "cocky", 52 "cool", 53 "compassionate", 54 "competent", 55 "condescending", 56 "confident", 57 "cranky", 58 "crazy", 59 "dazzling", 60 "determined", 61 "distracted", 62 "dreamy", 63 "eager", 64 "ecstatic", 65 "elastic", 66 "elated", 67 "elegant", 68 "eloquent", 69 "epic", 70 "fervent", 71 "festive", 72 "flamboyant", 73 "focused", 74 "friendly", 75 "frosty", 76 "gallant", 77 "gifted", 78 "goofy", 79 "gracious", 80 "happy", 81 "hardcore", 82 "heuristic", 83 "hopeful", 84 "hungry", 85 "infallible", 86 "inspiring", 87 "jolly", 88 "jovial", 89 "keen", 90 "kind", 91 "laughing", 92 "loving", 93 "lucid", 94 "magical", 95 "mystifying", 96 "modest", 97 "musing", 98 "naughty", 99 "nervous", 100 "nifty", 101 "nostalgic", 102 "objective", 103 "optimistic", 104 "peaceful", 105 "pedantic", 106 "pensive", 107 "practical", 108 "priceless", 109 "quirky", 110 "quizzical", 111 "recursing", 112 "relaxed", 113 "reverent", 114 "romantic", 115 "sad", 116 "serene", 117 "sharp", 118 "silly", 119 "sleepy", 120 "stoic", 121 "stupefied", 122 "suspicious", 123 "sweet", 124 "tender", 125 "thirsty", 126 "trusting", 127 "unruffled", 128 "upbeat", 129 "vibrant", 130 "vigilant", 131 "vigorous", 132 "wizardly", 133 "wonderful", 134 "xenodochial", 135 "youthful", 136 "zealous", 137 "zen", 138 } 139 140 // Docker, starting from 0.7.x, generates names from notable scientists and hackers. 141 // Please, for any amazing man that you add to the list, consider adding an equally amazing woman to it, and vice versa. 142 right = [...]string{ 143 // 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 144 "albattani", 145 146 // 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 147 "allen", 148 149 // June Almeida - Scottish virologist who took the first pictures of the rubella virus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Almeida 150 "almeida", 151 152 // Kathleen Antonelli, American computer programmer and one of the six original programmers of the ENIAC - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Antonelli 153 "antonelli", 154 155 // 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 156 "agnesi", 157 158 // Archimedes was a physicist, engineer and mathematician who invented too many things to list them here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes 159 "archimedes", 160 161 // Maria Ardinghelli - Italian translator, mathematician and physicist - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ardinghelli 162 "ardinghelli", 163 164 // Aryabhata - Ancient Indian mathematician-astronomer during 476-550 CE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryabhata 165 "aryabhata", 166 167 // 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 168 "austin", 169 170 // Charles Babbage invented the concept of a programmable computer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage. 171 "babbage", 172 173 // Stefan Banach - Polish mathematician, was one of the founders of modern functional analysis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Banach 174 "banach", 175 176 // 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 177 "banzai", 178 179 // John Bardeen co-invented the transistor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bardeen 180 "bardeen", 181 182 // Jean Bartik, born Betty Jean Jennings, was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Bartik 183 "bartik", 184 185 // Laura Bassi, the world's first female professor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Bassi 186 "bassi", 187 188 // Hugh Beaver, British engineer, founder of the Guinness Book of World Records https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Beaver 189 "beaver", 190 191 // 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 192 "bell", 193 194 // Karl Friedrich Benz - a German automobile engineer. Inventor of the first practical motorcar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Benz 195 "benz", 196 197 // 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 198 "bhabha", 199 200 // 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 201 "bhaskara", 202 203 // 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) 204 "black", 205 206 // Elizabeth Helen Blackburn - Australian-American Nobel laureate; best known for co-discovering telomerase. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Blackburn 207 "blackburn", 208 209 // Elizabeth Blackwell - American doctor and first American woman to receive a medical degree - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Blackwell 210 "blackwell", 211 212 // Niels Bohr is the father of quantum theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr. 213 "bohr", 214 215 // Kathleen Booth, she's credited with writing the first assembly language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Booth 216 "booth", 217 218 // Anita Borg - Anita Borg was the founding director of the Institute for Women and Technology (IWT). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Borg 219 "borg", 220 221 // 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 222 "bose", 223 224 // 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 225 "boyd", 226 227 // Brahmagupta - Ancient Indian mathematician during 598-670 CE who gave rules to compute with zero - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmagupta#Zero 228 "brahmagupta", 229 230 // Walter Houser Brattain co-invented the transistor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Houser_Brattain 231 "brattain", 232 233 // Emmett Brown invented time travel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Brown (thanks Brian Goff) 234 "brown", 235 236 // Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell - discoverer of pulsars while a graduate student, "one of the most significant scientific achievements of the 20th Century". - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell 237 "burnell", 238 239 // 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 240 "buck", 241 242 // 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 243 "burnell", 244 245 // 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 246 "cannon", 247 248 // 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 249 "carson", 250 251 // 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 252 "cartwright", 253 254 // 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 255 "chandrasekhar", 256 257 // 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 258 "chaplygin", 259 260 // 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 261 "chatelet", 262 263 // 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 264 "chatterjee", 265 266 // 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 267 "chebyshev", 268 269 // Clifford Christopher Cocks - British mathematician and cryptographer employed by the GCHQ. Invented in 1973 an equivalent of what is now known as the RSA public-key cryptosystem (Rivest, Shamir and Adleman first publicly described RSA in 1978). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Cocks 270 "cocks", 271 272 // Bram Cohen - American computer programmer and author of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen 273 "cohen", 274 275 // 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 276 "chaum", 277 278 // 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 279 "clarke", 280 281 // Jane Colden - American botanist widely considered the first female American botanist - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Colden 282 "colden", 283 284 // 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 285 "cori", 286 287 // 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 288 "cray", 289 290 // This entry reflects a husband and wife team who worked together: 291 // Joan Curran was a Welsh scientist who developed radar and invented chaff, a radar countermeasure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Curran 292 // 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 293 "curran", 294 295 // Marie Curie discovered radioactivity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie. 296 "curie", 297 298 // Charles Darwin established the principles of natural evolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin. 299 "darwin", 300 301 // Leonardo Da Vinci invented too many things to list here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci. 302 "davinci", 303 304 // 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 305 "dewdney", 306 307 // 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 308 "dhawan", 309 310 // Bailey Whitfield Diffie - American cryptographer and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitfield_Diffie 311 "diffie", 312 313 // Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was a Dutch computer scientist and mathematical scientist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra. 314 "dijkstra", 315 316 // 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 317 "dirac", 318 319 // 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 320 "driscoll", 321 322 // 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 323 "dubinsky", 324 325 // 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 326 "easley", 327 328 // Thomas Alva Edison, prolific inventor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison 329 "edison", 330 331 // Albert Einstein invented the general theory of relativity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein 332 "einstein", 333 334 // 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 335 "elbakyan", 336 337 // 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 338 "elgamal", 339 340 // Gertrude Elion - American biochemist, pharmacologist and the 1988 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Elion 341 "elion", 342 343 // 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 344 "ellis", 345 346 // Douglas Engelbart gave the mother of all demos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart 347 "engelbart", 348 349 // Euclid invented geometry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid 350 "euclid", 351 352 // Leonhard Euler invented large parts of modern mathematics. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler 353 "euler", 354 355 // Michael Faraday - British scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Faraday 356 "faraday", 357 358 // 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 359 "feistel", 360 361 // Pierre de Fermat pioneered several aspects of modern mathematics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Fermat 362 "fermat", 363 364 // Enrico Fermi invented the first nuclear reactor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi. 365 "fermi", 366 367 // Richard Feynman was a key contributor to quantum mechanics and particle physics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman 368 "feynman", 369 370 // Benjamin Franklin is famous for his experiments in electricity and the invention of the lightning rod. 371 "franklin", 372 373 // 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 374 "gagarin", 375 376 // Galileo was a founding father of modern astronomy, and faced politics and obscurantism to establish scientific truth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei 377 "galileo", 378 379 // 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 380 "galois", 381 382 // 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 383 "ganguly", 384 385 // William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates 386 "gates", 387 388 // 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 389 "gauss", 390 391 // 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 392 "germain", 393 394 // Adele Goldberg, was one of the designers and developers of the Smalltalk language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Goldberg_(computer_scientist) 395 "goldberg", 396 397 // Adele Goldstine, born Adele Katz, wrote the complete technical description for the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Goldstine 398 "goldstine", 399 400 // 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 401 "goldwasser", 402 403 // James Golick, all around gangster. 404 "golick", 405 406 // 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 407 "goodall", 408 409 // 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 410 "gould", 411 412 // 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 413 "greider", 414 415 // 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 416 "grothendieck", 417 418 // Lois Haibt - American computer scientist, part of the team at IBM that developed FORTRAN - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Haibt 419 "haibt", 420 421 // 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) 422 "hamilton", 423 424 // 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 425 "haslett", 426 427 // Stephen Hawking pioneered the field of cosmology by combining general relativity and quantum mechanics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking 428 "hawking", 429 430 // 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 431 "hellman", 432 433 // Werner Heisenberg was a founding father of quantum mechanics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg 434 "heisenberg", 435 436 // Grete Hermann was a German philosopher noted for her philosophical work on the foundations of quantum mechanics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grete_Hermann 437 "hermann", 438 439 // Caroline Lucretia Herschel - German astronomer and discoverer of several comets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Herschel 440 "herschel", 441 442 // Heinrich Rudolf Hertz - German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Hertz 443 "hertz", 444 445 // 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 446 "heyrovsky", 447 448 // 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 449 "hodgkin", 450 451 // 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 452 "hofstadter", 453 454 // Erna Schneider Hoover revolutionized modern communication by inventing a computerized telephone switching method. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erna_Schneider_Hoover 455 "hoover", 456 457 // 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 458 "hopper", 459 460 // 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 461 "hugle", 462 463 // Hypatia - Greek Alexandrine Neoplatonist philosopher in Egypt who was one of the earliest mothers of mathematics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia 464 "hypatia", 465 466 // Teruko Ishizaka - Japanese scientist and immunologist who co-discovered the antibody class Immunoglobulin E. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teruko_Ishizaka 467 "ishizaka", 468 469 // 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) 470 "jackson", 471 472 // 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 473 "jang", 474 475 // Betty Jennings - one of the original programmers of the ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Bartik 476 "jennings", 477 478 // 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 479 "jepsen", 480 481 // Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson - American physicist and mathematician contributed to the NASA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Johnson 482 "johnson", 483 484 // 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 485 "joliot", 486 487 // 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 488 "jones", 489 490 // 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 491 "kalam", 492 493 // 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 494 "kapitsa", 495 496 // 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 497 "kare", 498 499 // 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 500 "keldysh", 501 502 // 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 503 "keller", 504 505 // Johannes Kepler, German astronomer known for his three laws of planetary motion - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler 506 "kepler", 507 508 // 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 509 "khayyam", 510 511 // Har Gobind Khorana - Indian-American biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Har_Gobind_Khorana 512 "khorana", 513 514 // Jack Kilby invented silicone integrated circuits and gave Silicon Valley its name. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kilby 515 "kilby", 516 517 // Maria Kirch - German astronomer and first woman to discover a comet - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Margarethe_Kirch 518 "kirch", 519 520 // 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 521 "knuth", 522 523 // Sophie Kowalevski - Russian mathematician responsible for important original contributions to analysis, differential equations and mechanics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Kovalevskaya 524 "kowalevski", 525 526 // Marie-Jeanne de Lalande - French astronomer, mathematician and cataloguer of stars - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Jeanne_de_Lalande 527 "lalande", 528 529 // 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 530 "lamarr", 531 532 // 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 533 "lamport", 534 535 // Mary Leakey - British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilized Proconsul skull - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Leakey 536 "leakey", 537 538 // 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 539 "leavitt", 540 541 // Esther Miriam Zimmer Lederberg - American microbiologist and a pioneer of bacterial genetics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Lederberg 542 "lederberg", 543 544 // 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 545 "lehmann", 546 547 // 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 548 "lewin", 549 550 // Ruth Lichterman - one of the original programmers of the ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Teitelbaum 551 "lichterman", 552 553 // 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 554 "liskov", 555 556 // Ada Lovelace invented the first algorithm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace (thanks James Turnbull) 557 "lovelace", 558 559 // Auguste and Louis Lumière - the first filmmakers in history - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_and_Louis_Lumi%C3%A8re 560 "lumiere", 561 562 // Mahavira - Ancient Indian mathematician during 9th century AD who discovered basic algebraic identities - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah%C4%81v%C4%ABra_(mathematician) 563 "mahavira", 564 565 // 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 566 "margulis", 567 568 // 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 569 "matsumoto", 570 571 // James Clerk Maxwell - Scottish physicist, best known for his formulation of electromagnetic theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell 572 "maxwell", 573 574 // 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 575 "mayer", 576 577 // John McCarthy invented LISP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist) 578 "mccarthy", 579 580 // Barbara McClintock - a distinguished American cytogeneticist, 1983 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine for discovering transposons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McClintock 581 "mcclintock", 582 583 // Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren - British developmental biologist whose work helped lead to human in-vitro fertilisation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_McLaren 584 "mclaren", 585 586 // Malcolm McLean invented the modern shipping container: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcom_McLean 587 "mclean", 588 589 // Kay McNulty - one of the original programmers of the ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Antonelli 590 "mcnulty", 591 592 // Gregor Johann Mendel - Czech scientist and founder of genetics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Mendel 593 "mendel", 594 595 // 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 596 "mendeleev", 597 598 // 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 599 "meitner", 600 601 // Carla Meninsky, was the game designer and programmer for Atari 2600 games Dodge 'Em and Warlords. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla_Meninsky 602 "meninsky", 603 604 // 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 605 "merkle", 606 607 // Johanna Mestorf - German prehistoric archaeologist and first female museum director in Germany - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna_Mestorf 608 "mestorf", 609 610 // 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 611 "minsky", 612 613 // Maryam Mirzakhani - an Iranian mathematician and the first woman to win the Fields Medal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Mirzakhani 614 "mirzakhani", 615 616 // Gordon Earle Moore - American engineer, Silicon Valley founding father, author of Moore's law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Moore 617 "moore", 618 619 // 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 620 "morse", 621 622 // Ian Murdock - founder of the Debian project - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Murdock 623 "murdock", 624 625 // 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 626 "moser", 627 628 // 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 629 "napier", 630 631 // 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. 632 "nash", 633 634 // John von Neumann - todays computer architectures are based on the von Neumann architecture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture 635 "neumann", 636 637 // Isaac Newton invented classic mechanics and modern optics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton 638 "newton", 639 640 // 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 641 "nightingale", 642 643 // Alfred Nobel - a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer (inventor of dynamite) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel 644 "nobel", 645 646 // Emmy Noether, German mathematician. Noether's Theorem is named after her. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether 647 "noether", 648 649 // 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=1 650 "northcutt", 651 652 // Robert Noyce invented silicone integrated circuits and gave Silicon Valley its name. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Noyce 653 "noyce", 654 655 // 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 656 "panini", 657 658 // Ambroise Pare invented modern surgery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambroise_Par%C3%A9 659 "pare", 660 661 // Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and inventor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal 662 "pascal", 663 664 // Louis Pasteur discovered vaccination, fermentation and pasteurization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur. 665 "pasteur", 666 667 // 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 668 "payne", 669 670 // 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 671 "perlman", 672 673 // 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 674 "pike", 675 676 // Henri Poincaré made fundamental contributions in several fields of mathematics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9 677 "poincare", 678 679 // 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 680 "poitras", 681 682 // 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 683 "proskuriakova", 684 685 // 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 686 "ptolemy", 687 688 // 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 689 "raman", 690 691 // 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 692 "ramanujan", 693 694 // 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 695 "ride", 696 697 // 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) 698 "montalcini", 699 700 // Dennis Ritchie - co-creator of UNIX and the C programming language. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie 701 "ritchie", 702 703 // Ida Rhodes - American pioneer in computer programming, designed the first computer used for Social Security. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Rhodes 704 "rhodes", 705 706 // 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 707 "robinson", 708 709 // 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 710 "roentgen", 711 712 // Rosalind Franklin - British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer whose research was critical to the understanding of DNA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin 713 "rosalind", 714 715 // Vera Rubin - American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin 716 "rubin", 717 718 // 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 719 "saha", 720 721 // 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 722 "sammet", 723 724 // Mildred Sanderson - American mathematician best known for Sanderson's theorem concerning modular invariants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Sanderson 725 "sanderson", 726 727 // Claude Shannon - The father of information theory and founder of digital circuit design theory. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon) 728 "shannon", 729 730 // 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) 731 "shaw", 732 733 // Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley - Founded a software company in 1962 employing women working from home. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Shirley 734 "shirley", 735 736 // William Shockley co-invented the transistor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley 737 "shockley", 738 739 // 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 740 "shtern", 741 742 // 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 743 "sinoussi", 744 745 // Betty Snyder - one of the original programmers of the ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Holberton 746 "snyder", 747 748 // 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 749 "solomon", 750 751 // Frances Spence - one of the original programmers of the ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Spence 752 "spence", 753 754 // Ivan Edward Sutherland - American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, widely regarded as the father of computer graphics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Sutherland 755 "sutherland", 756 757 // 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 758 "stallman", 759 760 // 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 761 "stonebraker", 762 763 // 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 764 "swanson", 765 766 // 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 767 "swartz", 768 769 // Bertha Swirles was a theoretical physicist who made a number of contributions to early quantum theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Swirles 770 "swirles", 771 772 // Helen Brooke Taussig - American cardiologist and founder of the field of paediatric cardiology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_B._Taussig 773 "taussig", 774 775 // 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 776 "tereshkova", 777 778 // Nikola Tesla invented the AC electric system and every gadget ever used by a James Bond villain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla 779 "tesla", 780 781 // 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 782 "tharp", 783 784 // Ken Thompson - co-creator of UNIX and the C programming language - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson 785 "thompson", 786 787 // Linus Torvalds invented Linux and Git. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds 788 "torvalds", 789 790 // 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 791 "tu", 792 793 // Alan Turing was a founding father of computer science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing. 794 "turing", 795 796 // Varahamihira - Ancient Indian mathematician who discovered trigonometric formulae during 505-587 CE - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Var%C4%81hamihira#Contributions 797 "varahamihira", 798 799 // 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 800 "vaughan", 801 802 // 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 803 "visvesvaraya", 804 805 // 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 806 "volhard", 807 808 // 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 809 "villani", 810 811 // Marlyn Wescoff - one of the original programmers of the ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlyn_Meltzer 812 "wescoff", 813 814 // Andrew Wiles - Notable British mathematician who proved the enigmatic Fermat's Last Theorem - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wiles 815 "wiles", 816 817 // 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 818 "williams", 819 820 // 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 821 "williamson", 822 823 // Sophie Wilson designed the first Acorn Micro-Computer and the instruction set for ARM processors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson 824 "wilson", 825 826 // Jeannette Wing - co-developed the Liskov substitution principle. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Wing 827 "wing", 828 829 // Steve Wozniak invented the Apple I and Apple II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak 830 "wozniak", 831 832 // 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 833 "wright", 834 835 // Chien-Shiung Wu - Chinese-American experimental physicist who made significant contributions to nuclear physics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chien-Shiung_Wu 836 "wu", 837 838 // 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 839 "yalow", 840 841 // 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 842 "yonath", 843 844 // 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 845 "zhukovsky", 846 } 847 ) 848 849 var lastRandomName = "" 850 851 // GetRandomName generates a random name from the list of adjectives and surnames in this package 852 // formatted as "adjective_surname". For example 'focused_turing'. If retry is non-zero, a random 853 // integer between 0 and 10 will be added to the end of the name, e.g `focused_turing3` 854 func GetRandomName(retry int) string { 855 begin: 856 name := fmt.Sprintf("%s_%s", left[rand.Intn(len(left))], right[rand.Intn(len(right))]) 857 if name == "boring_wozniak" /* Steve Wozniak is not boring */ { 858 goto begin 859 } 860 861 if retry > 0 { 862 name = fmt.Sprintf("%s%d", name, rand.Intn(10)) 863 } 864 865 lastRandomName = name 866 return name 867 } 868 869 // GetLastRandomName returns the last generated name, useful for testing 870 func GetLastRandomName() string { 871 return lastRandomName 872 }