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To be fair they're physicists, not English majors
Sure, but misspelling historically significant names is a pretty bad sign for any flavor of science really.
I'm pretty sure Brits would want to stone me if I called that apple guy Newdon.
It's just the only one that I can imagine a physicist or engineer would be proud of.