Here's an outside-the-box thought: All of this effort on trying to find notable scientists / engineers plays right into the
"Great Man" fallacy - the idea that history is directed by single, powerful or brilliant men (or women, but mostly men in the fallacy). The truth is that we are all a product of the technology and culture we're born into. Einstein wouldn't have come up with the theory of relativity
without the work of Hertz, Maxwell, Lorentz and even Newton before. Newton himself recognized how much he owed to the existing body of scientific knowledge when he said
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." .
All of that is to say, maybe we should consider schools of thought, historical movements, or even organizations when naming new fields. Maybe "The Royal Society Field", "The ISO Field", "The Enlightenment Field", or even "Universal Suffrage Field". I'm sure there are better examples (or maybe we can't live without heroes
).