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Scientist and inventor names for your pet

Ask your vet about your own pet. This page is general information from the sources below.

Name a clever pet after a clever person. Marie Curie won two Nobel Prizes. Charles Darwin sailed around the world on a ship called the Beagle: a perfect name source for a beagle. And the mathematician Fibonacci's most famous puzzle, from 1202, counts how fast a family of rabbits grows.

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18 names, good for any pet.

Name	Boy or girl	Where it comes from
Einstein	Boy	Albert Einstein, who explained light, time and gravity in new ways.
Curie	Girl	Marie Curie, who won two Nobel Prizes.
Darwin	Boy	Charles Darwin, who sailed around the world on the Beagle. Great for a dog or reptile or turtle.
Fibonacci	Boy	The mathematician whose famous puzzle counts rabbits. Great for a rabbit.
Ada	Girl	Ada Lovelace, who wrote what's called the first computer program.
Grace	Girl	Grace Hopper, a pioneer of computer programming.
Newton	Boy	Isaac Newton, who described gravity.
Galileo	Boy	Galileo Galilei, who turned a telescope on the night sky.
Archimedes	Boy	The Greek thinker said to have shouted 'Eureka!' in his bath.
Tesla	Either	Nikola Tesla, an inventor who worked with electricity.
Edison	Boy	Thomas Edison, inventor of the phonograph.
Rosalind	Girl	Rosalind Franklin, whose X-ray pictures helped show the shape of DNA.
Goodall	Either	Jane Goodall, who studied wild chimpanzees in Tanzania.
Linnaeus	Boy	Who gave living things their two-part Latin names.
Kepler	Boy	Johannes Kepler, who worked out how planets move around the Sun.
Hubble	Boy	Edwin Hubble, who showed there are galaxies beyond our own.
Faraday	Boy	Michael Faraday, who discovered how to make electricity with magnets.
Katherine	Girl	Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician who checked the orbits.

Tick the names you like, then take them to a family vote.