The experiment involved bombarding a thin sheet of gold foil with alpha particles, and earned Rutherford, from Bridgewater on New Zealand's South Island, the moniker the "father of nuclear physics".

Burns is turning her players into the team’s self-defined defensive moniker: “Mad Dogs.”

Feeding it were the trees and grasses that give the city its “bush capital” moniker but were primed to burn by the previous year’s drought.

Many feel it’s because Howard took over O’Neal’s Superman moniker early in his career, donning a cape and sporting the superhero’s logo while competing in — and winning — the NBA’s slam dunk contest in 2008.

Though Gabriel Iglesias found major success using the moniker that has stuck with him for the majority of his career, he wasn’t really a fan of it at first.