Next Monday's Collaborative Profile of the Week? Whom would you like?

Question

The nominees for the next profile of the week are.

1) John Sullivan 1740-1795 Governor of New Hampshire http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sullivan-4766

2) Jacob Bernoulli . 1654-1705 Swiss Mathematician http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bernoulli-2

3) Ty Cobb 1886-1961 Baseball player http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cobb-3844

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And the winner is Jacob Bernoulli.

http://www.wikitree.com/g2g/135601/interesting-things-discover-weeks-collaborative-profile

Answer 1

WOW!!!  What a moment of illumination for me!  I never thought about people who entities in mathematics were named for ... it's a thrill to discover that there is (or was) a person responsible for Bernouilli's principle.  Now I can't wait to learn all about his life.  I'm already very familiar with his work!

I bet there was a person named Cauchy and another one named Fourier and Avogadro and Pythagoras ... and ... and ... and ...

well, I guess they'll have to wait for another week,-

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I just thought of something - I happen to have a Bernoulli thermometer hanging on my wall and could take a photo of it to add to the profile.