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Re: What's in a name? New Championship Divisions
Some of the other girls and I on 1678 have talked about this briefly. We wanted to see more women's names, came up with Lovelace, and then we ran into the issue of not being able to think of anyone else who wasn't still alive.
I would suggest Rosalind Franklin, except that that's already the name of an FTC field.
There are more people than I expected that I would put into that strange category of role model/legend/inspiration/scientist that feel like potential division names. At first I couldn't think of any of them, but a quick glance through my bookshelves and internet search history brought up a good handful.
These all happen to be mathematicians (or close to it). I guess that says something about my background.
Sophie Germain, Arthur Cayley, Alicia Boole Stott, Emmy Noether, Niels Abel, Alan Turing, Charles Babbage.
And, of course, another vote for Hopper and Lovelace.
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