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Tesla HAS to happen.

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Cannon, Meitner, Noether, R. Franklin, and Bell Burnell are the five women who should have received Nobel Prizes but did not. I still love Lovelace and Hopper as possible choices.

von Guericke, Boyle, Hooke, Carnot, Joule, Papin, Savery, Newcomen, Black, Watt, Maxwell, Boltzmann, Planck, Clausius, Rankine, Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Duhem, Lewis, Randall, and Guggenheim are all from thermodynamics.

If you want to get the rocket science in there - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Goddard, and Hermann Oberth preceded von Braun.
If you want women aerospace engineers/rocket scientists, Mary Sherman Morgan and Yvonne Brill top the list. Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the first female in space, and Yuri Gagarin was the first male in space.

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My desire for field names:

- More Americans (I get jealous of the FTC fields)
- More women would be nice.
- Maybe an Engineer?

How about: Feynmann, Lovelace, Watt, Tesla?
Or: Sagan, Hypatia, Jobs, Armstrong?

You could name it after the Wright brothers, and get two for one.

The FTC super regional in San Antonio named one of its fields after Ellen Ochoa...

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the push toward female name for the sake of female names is really sketchy. and i would like to see poeple who made things not just ideas.

Tesla
Eames
Fuller

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Looking at the division already we have:

"historical" or "classic" engineer(Archimedes)
Astronomer (Galileo)
Classical physicist (Newton)
Modern Physicist (Curie/Einstein)

The new fields should probably be named for people in different fields. The two that come to mind are Aerospace and Computer Science. My nominations would be:

Aerospace - Goddard, von Braun, or Qian Xuesen (He founded JPL and the Chinese space program, his bio is pretty interesting.)

Computer Science - Hopper, Lovelace, Turing, or maybe even Babbage.

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Tesla. With the number of contributions he's made to the world of both mechanical and electrical engineering, he seems like the obvious choice. For those of you less familiar with his work, here's a bit of perspective (not to mention one of the funniest, most eye-opening things I've ever read) (Warning: language) (But it's definitely worth it) http://www.theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla

Tesla and Turing are the ones that response with me.

I think we should have some engineers represented. Don't get me wrong science is great but this is really an engineering competition.

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Archimedes was an engineer. So was Edison.

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Tesla and Turing!

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One should be named after Dean!

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I definitely second an Asimov Division! He was the first person to use the word "Robotics," created the Three Laws of Robotics, and is thought of as the father of Science Fiction. Bring the love for inventing great stories.

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I like Asimov and Tesla.

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+1 For these field names.

I hope someone from FIRST is watching this thread and is going to use these two.

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It would be really telling about how FIRST did actually go forward with naming new field names. I wonder if they would pick from internally or do like a poll of FRC teams.

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Walter Cronkite.