Some time ago, I blogged about the over-use of girls' names used to name physics things. This was prompted by a Tweet stating "we are not decoration!"
Today I learnt about a new facility in South Africa called PAUL. This is my name, and it's a male name, so I guess it slowly helps redress the balance.
It's an underground facility for the kind of experiment where you want a low background of cosmic radiation. Here's a picture below of a CAD picture of part of the setup, from the website above.
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