Named after the planet Neptune.

Named after the planet Pluto.

Named after Marie Curie.

Named after the scientist Albert Einstein.

Named after the scientist Enrico Fermi.

Named after the scientist Alfred Nobel.

Named after the scientist Ernest Rutherford

Named after the scientist Niels Bohr.

Named after Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.

Named after the Finnish chemist Johan Gadolin

Named after the scientist D. I. Mendeleev.

Named after the scientist Ernest Orlando Lawrence.

Named after the scientist G. Theodore Seaborg.

Named after the scientist Lise Meitner.

Named after the German god of thunder Thor

Named after the science town Dubna in Russia

The port was named in honor of Simón Bolívar (1783 1830).

It is believed to have been named after Thijmen Jacobsz Hinlopen.

Named after Niobe, the daughter of the Greek god Tantalus.

The genus is named after Dirce in Greek mythology.

Legacy The city of General Terán in Nuevo León, Mexico, is named in his honor.

In their honour, the village was named Berlin in 1833 (renamed to Kitchener in 1916).

The genus is named in honor of the American botanist Rupert Charles Barneby (1911 2006).

The site is now occupied by the hamburgmuseumThe crater Repsold on the Moon is named after him, as is the asteroid 906 Repsolda.

It receives its name from Henry Haversham Godwin Austen, an early explorer of this region.

It was named in honor of Merton Davies (1917 2001), a pioneer in the cartography of planetary bodies.

The genus is named in honor of Murdan Aly, plant collector and former director of the herbarium at Saharunpore, India.

Masur stood down as the NYP's music director in 2002, and was named its Music Director Emeritus, a new title created for him.

It is native to southwestern and west central China and is likely named for the city of Yichang (宜昌), in China's Hubei province.

The airport is named in honor of General Lucio Blanco, a major figure of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 to 1920.

Named after the Greek Prometheus. Prometheus stole the fire from the gods and gave it to mankind.

Asteroid 3449 Abell is named in his honor, as is The George Abell Observatory at the Open University in Milton Keynes, England.

Following the U.S. Army's naming convention for helicopters, the OH 58A was named Kiowa in honor of the Native American tribe.

Percival The , named after Sir Percival of the Knights of the Round Table, is a custom eighth generation Knightmare Frame piloted by the Knight of Ten, Luciano Bradley.

It was named in honor of the British Astronomer Royal Sir George Biddell Airy (1801 1892), who in 1850 built the transit circle telescope at Greenwich.

In March 2007, he was named an honorary member of the Carlos III Foundation in recognition of his contribution to the agreement between Morocco and Spain.

He received a knighthood in 2002.

The municipality was named after Datu Bataraza Narrazid, a locally influential Muslim chieftain and father of the town's first mayor and former mayor of Brooke's Point, the late Datu Sapiodin Narrazid.

In 2006, he was named fullback of the year.

In 1923 he was named Minister of War.

Named because it was found in Scandinavia

The Queen Alexandra Sanitorium, named after Alexandra of Denmark, wife of King Edward VII, was officially opened on April 5 of that year by Governor General Earl Grey.

Matsukata became Lord Home Minister in 1880.

In 1863, he was named Queen's Counsel.

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