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by ragebol 22 days ago
These are called aptonyms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym?useskin=vector
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I found this one truly shocking!

Amy Lloyd, British neuroscientist who studied amyloid plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease[0]

[0] https://www.dundee.ac.uk/people/amy-lloyd

or nominative determinism