I had never heard of
Haskell Curry before I read
the preface to SICP just now, but it occurs to me that his distinction of having each of his names (first and last) turned into a term used in the discipline he studied (
Haskell the programming language and
Curry the operation) is sort of like how
Glenn Seaborg, working at
LBL, could have a letter addressed to him using element names (seaborgium / lawrencium berkelium / californium / americium.)
Who else can you think of that falls into this admittedly fuzzy-edged bucket?
