New divisions at nats?

[Matt Leese]

I'm surprised no one brought up the idea of a Goddard Field. Given sponsorship by NASA, they'd probably be all for the inventor of the liquid rocket.

Matt

[Sean Schuff]

Wow! Lots of good ideas.

I'm partial to -

1 - Tesla - possibly the single greatest unsung hero (UFH?) in the history of man. Look him up if your not an EE. If you are and EE (or a geek like me!), you already know who he is!

2 - DaVinci - what a man WAY, WAY ahead of his time!

Actually, I don't care what they name the fields! I like the idea of adding two more divisions and allowing more teams to attend the national championships! Space doesn't seem to be an issue in Atlanta!

Have a day!

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally Posted by Sean Schuff

1 - Tesla ...
2 - DaVinci ...

I've gotta agree with Schuff - C'mon, Tesla is cool enough to have an <shamless plug> engineering charter school named after him </shamless plug> and DaVinci was just awesome.

[Ryan F.]

I'm all for the wrights idea.

[suneel112]

Since Newton represents the mechanics and gravitational side of physics, Archimedes represents fluid dynamics (maybe ), Galileo represents astronomy, and Curie represents Nuclear Physics (to some degree), there needs to be a person from Electronics and Magnetism recognized. The robot building is half mechanics and half E&M so E&M should also be recognized.
Maybe Gauss, Ampere, or Faraday

of course, its time that a field gets named after either an American or an Asian.
Joseph Henry
Edwin Hubble
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Benjamin Franklin
<insert other Prominent American Scientists here>
Industrial/Engineering:
Ford
Edison
Dean Kamen

Chandra
<instert other Asians here>

[Alex Pelan]

Copernicus and Da Vinci get my vote...

[Joshua May]

Volta, Da Vinci, Edison,

and of course... BAKER and GRADY, the great andys!!!

[T967]

Da Vinci definantly, the man did everything.

As for a second choice why not someone more simple, not a giant science guy but someone that was just skilled and still changed our world?

Wright?
Tesla?
That guy who invented the printing press?


No to Copernicus, he was a lucky fraud. All he did was start a bunch of controversy.

[Marc P.]

I'd still have to insist on Faraday. Heck, we wouldn't have robots with electric motors if it weren't for him!

Pasted from this informative biography:

The year 1821 marked another important time in Faraday's researches. He had worked almost entirely on chemistry topics yet one of his interests from his days as a bookbinder had been electricity. In 1820 several scientists in Paris including Arago and Ampère made significant advances in establishing a relation between electricity and magnetism. Davy became interested and this gave Faraday the opportunity to work on the topic. He published On some new electro-magnetical motions, and on the theory of magnetism in the Quarterly Journal of Science in October 1821. Pearce Williams writes [1]:-

It records the first conversion of electrical into mechanical energy. It also contained the first notion of the line of force.

[T967]

Tesla actually did all that, but he was a weird duck. By did I mean he came up with concepts and made things, he didn't just theorize. (Keep in mind alot of people made papers, it's the ones who put them to use that get alot of recognition. exception: Einstein-his theories create entire fields of study, and are about to again. Gravity Probe B)

[RiceRobotica]

Faraday, Rutherford, Tesla.... Any of those would be good.

[Team311]

how bout in keeping with the technology theme the Gates Field or The Torvalds Field or even the Berners-Lee Field

[gsensel]

Wozniak and Jobs sound pretty good

[RBrandy]

Originally Posted by T967

No to Copernicus, he was a lucky fraud. All he did was start a bunch of controversy.

I'd say he's a good cantidate... As the inventor of controversy.

[mtrawls]

What about the Gravity field and the Electric field? Then at the finals, you could talk about the cases where the electric field dominates (or the other way around) ...

Sorry, recovering from a quantum physics test

How 'bout Gauss? I mean, really, Gauss was everywhere. Number theory, imaginary numbers, linear algebra ... and that's not even to mention the half of it, and then there's his physics contributions (a little thing called Gauss's law for starters). Of course, as a programmer, I'd also have to appreciate Turing (previous suggestion).