It's still the most unbelievably ironic name for a pioneer/inventor.
There's a computer architect with the surname Lowe-Power https://cs.ucdavis.edu/directory/jason-lowe-power
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Random, does anyone know how this name is actually pronounced (or, rather, how he pronounced it)? I think it would be awesome if it were actually "good enough". Did some searching online but all the results seemed of dubious quality.
I was wondering if it might be pronounced “good-in-ow”.
If that'd be so, it might come from a "make it sound and spell English" Goodenowe, Godunov, Gudanowski etc.
Lo-and-behold John Goodenough is from Thuringia, Germany, born to Jewish parents, father Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough. So quite likely the name was transcribed at some point in history, even if not documented in Wikipedia et. al. very publicly, we can see that his father in turn seems to come from said "Goodenows" via the references link in the father's Wikipedia page [1].
So all in all, good guess!
[1] https://books.google.ca/books?id=Ak1MAAAAMAAJ&q=Helen+(Lewis...
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#23It's still the most unbelievably ironic name for a pioneer/inventor.
I think it's apropos considering the absolute longevity of lithium ion batteries across industries despite research labs producing significantly better prototypes for decades.
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#26It's still the most unbelievably ironic name for a pioneer/inventor.
I am surprised no politician (that I am aware of) has legally changed their name to Lower Taxes before running for election, seems like they’d be a shoe-in with little effort.
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#27It's still the most unbelievably ironic name for a pioneer/inventor.
I am surprised no politician (that I am aware of) has legally changed their name to Lower Taxes before running for election, seems like they’d be a shoe-in with little effort.
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#28It's still the most unbelievably ironic name for a pioneer/inventor.
Random, does anyone know how this name is actually pronounced (or, rather, how he pronounced it)? I think it would be awesome if it were actually "good enough". Did some searching online but all the results seemed of dubious quality.
Have the same last name, just pronounced "good enough" as it looks. Have met a few other unrelated families from different countries with the same last name and never heard it pronounced differently either - perhaps historically though.
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#29It's still the most unbelievably ironic name for a pioneer/inventor.
I am surprised no politician (that I am aware of) has legally changed their name to Lower Taxes before running for election, seems like they’d be a shoe-in with little effort.
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#30It's still the most unbelievably ironic name for a pioneer/inventor.
When I first read "John Goodenough has died" (which was an actual headline here) I thought of "just another" overdone headline for excellence coaching or motivational GTD training...
Still sad that it wasn't about that.