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Scientific Cat Names For Your Purring Pet

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Giving your new pet a name can be quite challenging at times. Sometimes it is enough to look at them and you already realize what name will suit them to a T, but sometimes you might have a bunch of nice names and still be unsure which one to select as your final choice. We wanted to discuss some cool cat names in this article, but you can apply these ideas to really any pet you have.

So you brought home a ball of purr. First of all, congratulations! You are now in possession of a natural alarm clock that will demand food at the crack of dawn, an interior designer who’ll rearrange stuff on your desk according to the latest trends (and knock off everything that doesn’t fit in), and an affectionate bundle that will give you the warmest cuddles in the world. Now it’s time to make a list of creative cat names to start choosing from.

Science can be a source of some unique cat names. Observe their behavior for a couple of days. Does your kitty like to stick their tongue out a lot? That’s very obviously an Einstein! Do they like gazing into the distance with an expression of deep thought? I think you just got yourself an Aristotle. There are plenty of famous names in science, and you will definitely find one that suits your cat.

By the way, did you know that the scientific name of the domestic cat is Felis catus? To honor that name, you can call your pet Felix or Felicia – both sound very beautiful and look good on a cat. And if you are after some rare cat names, you can go deeper into mathematical terms (kitten siblings Sine and Cosine, anyone?), chemical elements (a golden kitten named Aurum will draw lots of attention), and so on.

Just make sure you name your cat with love, and in no time they will start responding to it.

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#1

Newton — Isaac Newton

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elsieairhead 2 years ago

Missed out on Issac Mew-ton there.

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Luna

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Deborah Harris 2 years ago

Luna-tic describes mine anyhoo 😂

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Galileo — Galileo

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Deborah Harris 2 years ago

I'd have to sing to call it .... with my best Queen impression

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Hawking — Steven Hawking

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kitten levels tokyo 2 years ago

Appropriate for a cat who pukes a lot.

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Mercury

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Nebula

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Kiwi 2 years ago

Love this.

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Tesla — Nikola Tesla

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Babbzilla 2 years ago

I named my first cat Tesla

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Archimedes — Archimedes of Syracuse

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Deborah Harris 2 years ago

Archie sounds cute

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Molecule

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kitten levels tokyo 2 years ago

My current cat, Deoxyribonucleic Acid, would love to have a little brother named Molecule.

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Einstein — Albert Einstein

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Darwin — Charles Darwin

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Robin Canfield 2 years ago

I'm sorry .. Darwin is the best name ...my baby is the king of all moth eaters..explorer of the basement..and thinks the bathroom is his own rainforest

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Dr. Frankenstein — "Frankenstein"

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kitten levels tokyo 2 years ago

Super scientific.

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Dexter — "Dexter’s Laboratory"

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kitten levels tokyo 2 years ago

Cats are serial killers from the POV of small animals, so this one fits.

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Pinky — "Pinky & the Brain"

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kitten levels tokyo 2 years ago

Ultra scientific.

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#15

Orbit

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Andromeda

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Katie Kerg 2 years ago

I have a tiny black cat who has random strands of white and i mean single hairs, can't even notice unless you're right by her, my point is her name is Andromeda

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#17

Cassiopeia

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Galaxy

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Kiwi 2 years ago

I can see the stars!

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#19

Volt

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kitten levels tokyo 2 years ago

“This animal name suggestion has been sponsored by Chevrolet.”

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Pixel

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Isotope

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Gabbzz 2 years ago

I'll be surprised if this isn't used as a human name.

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#22

Edison — Thomas Edison

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Zelda Fitzgerald 2 years ago

Copurrrnicus

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Morse — Samuel Morse

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Hedy — Hedy Lemarr

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J. Emery Anderson 2 years ago

Very Good....she was a genius in her time. 🤯

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#25

Miss Frizzle — "The Magic School Bus"

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tresgatos72 2 years ago

For a fluffy cat

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#26

Alien

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Katie Kerg 2 years ago

But they are aliens, why call them what they are?😹😹😹

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#27

Eli — Eli Whitney

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tresgatos72 2 years ago

Eli Kitney

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#28

Sid — "Sid the Science Kid"

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#29

Farnsworth — "Futurama"

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George Nunes 2 years ago

Farnsworth is actually the guy who invented television and the inspiration for that character's name

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Celsius

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Quantum

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Data

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Nasa

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Nano

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Linux

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#36

Wu — "Jurassic Park"

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kitten levels tokyo 2 years ago

Reaching…

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#37

Bruce — "The Incredible Hulk"

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Scully — "X-Files"

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Arthur — Arthur Caley

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Everest

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#41

Comet

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Cosmo

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Moon

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Kiwi 2 years ago

I have a dog named Moon.

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#44

Jefferson — Thomas Jefferson

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#45

Beasley — Maria E. Beasley

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#46

Patricia — Patricia Bath

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#47

Rosalind — Rosalind Franklin

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#48

Marie — Marie Curie

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Sheryl Lemons 2 years ago

I think just Curie would be a better cat name.

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#49

deGrasse — "Neil deGrasse Tyson"

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Kiwi 2 years ago

Love that guy. And your cat too!

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#50

Rotwang — "Metropolis"

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Deborah Harris 2 years ago

Nope too nasty sounding

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#51

Jimmy Neutron — "Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius"

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Irene Österlund 2 years ago

Just Neutron would be better

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#52

The Professor — "Gilligan’s Island"

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#53

Magnus — Albertus Magnus

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Atomicwoman07 2 years ago

Our previous cat was called Albert, but we used to sometimes call him saint Albertus Magnus

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#54

Ingrid — Ingrid Daubechies

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#55

Dorothy — Dorothy Vaughn

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Sheryl Lemons 2 years ago

Again the last name seem better for a cat. Dorothy was a brilliant person though.

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#56

Fahrenheit

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#57

Zinc

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#58

Atom

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kitten levels tokyo 2 years ago

Two cats, Atom and Eva (Eva Engvall).

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Nimbus

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Cirrus

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Cumulus

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Magnet

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Jupiter

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#64

Neptune

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Star

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Light Year

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Asteroid

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Laser

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Byte

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Graham Bell — Alexander Graham Bell

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Margaret — Margaret E. Knight

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#72

Melitta — Melitta Bentz

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Copernicus — Nicolaus Copernicus

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Aristotle — Aristotle

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Bohr — Neils Bohr

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#76

Szalinski — "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"

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Stone — "Gravity"

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#78

Sue Storm — "The Fantastic Four"

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kitten levels tokyo 2 years ago

Because every cat has a first and last name.

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Hilbert — David Hilbert

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#80

Ada — Ada Lovelace

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Sophie — Sophie Germain

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Beaker

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Permafrost

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Botany

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Chemist

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Robot

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kitten levels tokyo 2 years ago

Ok, this one could work.

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Cortex

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#88

Flask

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Petri

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Fossil

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Gibbous

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Orion

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Draco

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Nova

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Aries

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Celeste

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Oberon

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Janus

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Juno

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Eclipse

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Pluto

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Sheryl Lemons 2 years ago

Should be a dog name

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Fractal

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Density

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Soyuz

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Echo

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Yannic 2 years ago

What about Fives and Heavy?

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#106

Woz — Steve Wozniak

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Pascal

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Rocket

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Solstice

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Gamma

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Photon

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Carbon

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#113

Henry — Henry Ford

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Babbage — Charles Babbage

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Logie — John Logie Baird

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Josephine — Josephine Cochrane

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Beulah — Beulah Louise Henry

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Sarah — Sarah Boone

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Florence — Florence Parpart

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Magie — Lizzie Magie

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Esther — Esther Takeuchi

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Wu — Chien-Shiung Wu

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#123

Nye — "Bill Nye"

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Beakman — "Beakman’s World"

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Dr. Emmet Brown — "Back to the Future"

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Jane — "Thor: Dark World"

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Lily — "Chain Reaction"

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Sarah — "The Lost World: Jurassic Park"

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Ellie — "Jurassic Park"

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Susan — "Robot"

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Amelia — "Interstellar"

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Grace — "Avatar"

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Fossey — "Gorillas in the Mist"

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Euclid — Euclid of Alexandria

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Pythagoras — Pythagoras of Samos

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Alexander — Alexander Grothendieck

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Leonhard — Leonhard Euler

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Evelyn — Evelyn Boyd Granville

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Compound

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Pi

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Bunsen

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Graphite

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#143

Syzygy

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Arctic

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Constellation

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Halley

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Plasma

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Phobos

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Sagan — Carl Sagan

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Doppler

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kitten levels tokyo 2 years ago

If you want to collaborate with me and start writing for BP I have an idea for 183 “scientific “names for dogs.

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Kernal

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Gutenburg — Johannes Gutenbyrg

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Guido — Guido of Arezzo

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Marian — Marian Croak

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Ellen — Ellen Egin

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Caresse — Caresse Crosby

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Barbara — Barbara McClintock

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Lise — Lise Meitner

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#159

Doudna — Jennifer Doudna

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Strangeglove — "Dr. Strangeglove"

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Ross — "Friends"

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Keough — "Outbreak"

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Marta — "The Bourne Legacy"

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Helen — "The Day the Earth Stood Still"

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Charlie — "Top Gun"

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Emma — "The Saint"

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#167

Mears — "Contagion"

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Arroway — "Contact"

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Carl — Carl Gauss

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Riemann — Bernhard Riemann

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Emmy — Emmy Noether

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Hypatia — Hypatia

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Sofya — Sofya Kovalevskaya

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Majorie — Majorie Lee Browne

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Euphemia — Euphemia Haynes

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Phillipa — Phillipa Fawcett

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Daina — Daina Taimina

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Pipette

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Thermos

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Cuvette

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Penumbra

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Wandflower

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Jaxa

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Larysa Perih

I’m a visual editor at Bored Panda. My work is to find or create visuals for articles about home and design. I enjoy making small illustrations and improving my skills in Adobe Illustrator. After work, I try to do something active like running, yoga, cycling, or skateboarding, mostly because it allows me to spend more time outdoors and not sitting behind my desk.

I’m a visual editor at Bored Panda. My work is to find or create visuals for articles about home and design. I enjoy making small illustrations and improving my skills in Adobe Illustrator. After work, I try to do something active like running, yoga, cycling, or skateboarding, mostly because it allows me to spend more time outdoors and not sitting behind my desk.

Marisha Kazaryan

I knew I wanted to be a storyteller ever since I learned to read and write. Fulfilled this dream when I became a content creator and a filmmaker. Also got a degree in English language and literature because grammar is important! Good coffee and good music make everything better. When I’m not telling stories, you’ll find me studying foreign languages (currently, Korean), fangirling over my guinea pig Pepperboy, watching TV shows, and learning to play the drums.

I knew I wanted to be a storyteller ever since I learned to read and write. Fulfilled this dream when I became a content creator and a filmmaker. Also got a degree in English language and literature because grammar is important! Good coffee and good music make everything better. When I’m not telling stories, you’ll find me studying foreign languages (currently, Korean), fangirling over my guinea pig Pepperboy, watching TV shows, and learning to play the drums.

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Terry Tobias 2 years ago

If I ever get a male cat again I plan on calling him Schrodinger.

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Éowyn The Detransitioner 2 years ago

I'm getting an emotional support cat soon and I will DEFINITELY take all these names into consideration!

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José 2 years ago

I called my (female!) cat Lux..

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Terry Tobias 2 years ago

If I ever get a male cat again I plan on calling him Schrodinger.

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Éowyn The Detransitioner 2 years ago

I'm getting an emotional support cat soon and I will DEFINITELY take all these names into consideration!

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José 2 years ago

I called my (female!) cat Lux..

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