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Add several names to the name generator [ci fast] (#3790)
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Signed-off-by: Ben Sherman <bentshermann@gmail.com>
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// Niels Bohr is the father of quantum theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr.
"bohr",

// Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann was an Austrian physicist and philosopher, best known for his work on the second law of thermodynamics (i.e. entropy). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Boltzmann
"boltzmann",

// Kathleen Booth, she's credited with writing the first assembly language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Booth
"booth",

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// 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
"chandrasekhar",

// This entry reflects two unrelated scientists:
// Alonzo Church was an American mathematician, computer scientist, logician, and philosopher. He invented the lambda calculus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonzo_Church
// George M. Church - American geneticist, molecular engineer, and chemist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_M._Church
"church",

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// Pierre Curie was a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Curie
"curie",

// Haskell Brook Curry was an American mathematician and logician. Three programming languages - Haskell, Brook, and Curry - are named after him, as well as the concept of currying in functional programming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Curry
"curry",

// This entry reflects a husband and wife team who worked together:
// Joan Curran was a Welsh scientist who developed radar and invented chaff, a radar countermeasure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Curran
// 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
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// Federico Faggin is an Italian physicist, inventor and entrepreneur, widely known for designing the first commercial microprocessor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Faggin
"faggin",

// Michael Faraday was an English natural philosopher who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Faraday
"faraday",

// Pierre de Fermat pioneered several aspects of modern mathematics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Fermat
"fermat",

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// William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
"gates",

// Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to many fields in mathematics and science. The Gaussian distribution (a.k.a. normal distribution) is named after him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss
"gauss",

// Marthe Gautier discovered the link of diseases to chromosome abnormalities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marthe_Gautier
"gautier",

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// 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
"kare",

// Alan Curtis Kay is an American computer scientist best known for his pioneering work on object-oriented programming (OOP) and graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Also claims that languages like C++ and Java are not "truly" object-oriented in the way he originally conceived. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay
"kay",

// 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
"keller",

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// Sophie Kowalevski - Russian mathematician responsible for important original contributions to analysis, differential equations and mechanics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Kovalevskaya
"kowalevski",

// Giuseppe Luigi Lagrangia (later naturalized French to Lagrange) was an Italian mathematician, physicist and astronomer. Several ideas in mathematics and physics are named after him - Lagrange multipliers, Lagrangian points, Lagrangian mechanics, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph-Louis_Lagrange
"lagrange",

// Marie-Jeanne de Lalande - French astronomer, mathematician and cataloguer of stars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Jeanne_de_Lalande
"lalande",

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// Guillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean-Baptiste Le Gentil de la Galaisière - French astronomer, part of the international collaborative project to measure the distance to the Sun, by observing the transit of Venus at different points on the earth. Mainly known for being one of the most unfortunate and unlucky scientist ever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Gentil
"legentil",

// Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat. He developed the main ideas of calculus independently of Isaac Newton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz
"leibniz",

// Ruth Lichterman - one of the original programmers of the ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Teitelbaum
"lichterman",

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// Guglielmo Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi
"marconi",

// James Clerk Maxwell was a Scottish mathematician and scientist responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation (i.e. Maxwell's equations). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell
"maxwell",

// 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
"mayer",

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// Angelo Moriondo was an Italian inventor usually credited for patenting the earliest known espresso machine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Moriondo
"moriondo",

// John von Neumann (Hungarian: Neumann János Lajos) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath. The Von Neumann architecture, his namesake, is still used to this day in computer design. He also designed the policy of "mutually assured destruction" during the Cold War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann
"neumann",

// Isaac Newton invented classic mechanics and modern optics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton
"newton",

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// 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
"pike",

// Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was a German theoretical physicist, best known for the discovery of energy quenta and Planck's constant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck
"planck",

// Joseph Plateau - Belgian physisist known for being one of the first persons to demonstrate the illusion of moving image. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Plateau
"plateau",

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// Peter Paul Rubens - Flemish baroque painter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Paul_Rubens
"rubens",

// Ernest Rutherford was a New Zealand physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Rutherford
"rutherford",

// 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
"saha",

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