Wednesday 6 November 2024

My name will live on forever

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.