List of eponyms of Nvidia GPU microarchitectures

This is a list of eponyms of Nvidia GPU microarchitectures. The eponym in this case is the person after whom an architecture is named. Listed are the person, their portrait, their profession or areas of expertise, their birth year, their death year, their country of origin, the microarchitecture named after them, and the year of release of the GPU architecture.

Eponyms of Nvidia GPU microarchitectures

Eponym	Profession	Origin	Architecture	Release year	Ref.
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736)	Physicist	Polish Naturalized Dutch	Fahrenheit	1998
Anders Celsius (1701–1744)	Physicist and astronomer	Swedish	Celsius	1999
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824–1907)	Mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer	British	Kelvin	2001
William Rankine (1820–1872)	Mechanical engineer	Scottish	Rankine	2003
Marie Curie (1867–1934)	Physicist and chemist	Polish Naturalized French	Curie	2004	[1]
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943)	Inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist	Serbian American	Tesla	2006	[2]
Enrico Fermi (1901–1954)	Physicist	Italian Naturalized American	Fermi	2010	[3]
Johannes Kepler (1571–1630)	Astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music	German	Kepler	2012	[4]
James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)	Mathematician and scientist	Scottish	Maxwell	2014	[5]
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)	Mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer	French	Pascal	2016	[6]
Alessandro Volta (1745–1827)	Physicist, chemist	Italian	Volta	2017	[7]
Alan Turing (1912–1954)	Mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist	English	Turing	2018	[8]
André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836)	Physicist and mathematician	French	Ampere	2020	[9]
Grace Hopper (1906–1992)	Computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral	American	Hopper	2022	[10]
Ada Lovelace (1815–1852)	Mathematician and writer	English	Ada Lovelace	2022	[11]
David Blackwell (1919–2010)	Mathematician and statistician	American	Blackwell	2024	[12]
Vera Rubin (1928–2016)	Astronomer, Astrophysicist	American	Rubin	2026	[13]
Richard Feynman (1918–1988)	Theoretical physicist	American	Feynman	2028	[14]

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