On: Los Alamos Chess

[dvh]

Kruskal (author of the kruskal algorithm) won.

edit: pardon, wrong Kruskal

Joseph Kruskal had two notable brothers, Martin David Kruskal, co-inventor of solitons, and William Kruskal, who developed the Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance. One of Joseph Kruskal's nephews is notable computer scientist and professor Clyde Kruskal.

[pavel_lishin → dvh]

And apparently his mother popularized origami in America!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Oppenheimer

[mturmon → pavel_lishin]

Amazing stuff!

And origami is not unrelated to (hexa)flexagons, which are a perennial HN favorite and also a math/physics fascination (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexagon#Discovery_and_introdu...)

[thriftwy → dvh]

This one seems to be the author of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruskal–Szekeres_coordinates

Which are great at challenging commonly held beliefs about black holes.