Monday, October 11, 2010

Bardeen International Airport?

I was intrigued and impressed that the Belgrade airport is called Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport. This the only case I have encountered of an airport named after a scientist. They mostly seem to be named after politicians (e.g. JFK and Ronald Reagan) and rock stars (John Lennon in Liverpool). Here are a few proposals:

LAX - Linus Pauling
Urbana - John Bardeen
Newark - Phil Anderson
Adelaide - William Bragg

Any other ideas?

It is interesting reading the wikipedia page about Tesla, particularly the observation that he probably suffered from obessive-compulsive disorder. He is another example of where the dividing line between genius and mental illness is a fine one.

5 comments:

  1. The Wroclaw airport in Poland is called Copernicus Airport.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernicus_Airport_Wroc%C5%82aw

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  2. New Haven's airport could be renamed after J.W. Gibbs.

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  3. Pisa airport is named Galileo Galilei,
    while Rome is Leonardo da Vinci, not only a scientist

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  4. Thanks for all the corrections.
    I guess the italians are the leaders with two!

    Other possibiities

    Bristol - Mott airport
    Vienna or Dublin - Schrodinger airport
    San Diego - Jonas Salk

    it is interesting that an airport has not been named after Einstein (Bern?) or Newton or Darwin

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  5. "Above us only sky" = John Lennon Airport
    "We was robbed", Nottm Forest fan = Robin Hood Airport, Doncaster

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