[AlexWest]

I assume you have the same problem with Tesla?

[patmcc]

I'm not crazy about it, but using just a last name feels different than first+last - to me the latter seems like an active endorsement. Also Telsa has been dead 50 years longer than Hopper, which helps. And some names become genericized, almost like brands do - Einstein was a person but is now a synonym for smart/genius, so the Einstein Academy would bother me even less. Telsa feels somewhere between Hopper and Einstein on that scale.

I'd also have a problem with a 'Steve Jobs school for iPhone app development' or the 'Robin Williams comedy training centre'.

[qq66]

Also, Tesla is the SI unit of magnetic flux density, so it's in the lexicon independent of Nikola Tesla himself.

[patmcc]

True, although both the company and the unit were named after Nikola, so not sure if that changes much.