...or the artist formerly known as Prince!  Here's a case
where someone with 12 albums of published music as "Prince"
decides to change his name, for a decade, to an
unpronounceable symbol. There was no precedent for this --
music database compilers, radio stations and fans did not know
how to deal with this change.  His name sometimes appears
"TAFKAP" (the artist formerly known as Prince) or "The
Artist," or just "Prince."  The album reflects his name as the
symbol.  500 years from now maybe musicologists will only know
the connection between Prince and TAFKAP.  This is a radical
example.

It would seem to me that if a person name Cynthia DeMilo
publishes her name in scientific paper that describes a new
species (hypothetically speaking) Pecten valvus, who formerly
published 15 other species using her maiden name Cynthia Leto,
then the author for Pecten valvus would still have to be
DeMilo, irrespective of how she previously published her name.
 DeMilo was the authors name published for Pecten valvus.

If Hillary runs for President and submits her name to the
election committee as Hillary Rodam as opposed to Hillary
Clinton, or Hillary Rodam-Clinton, then I would think the
candidate's name has to be Rodham.  Let's not get into why she
would do such a thing.  This is all hypothetical.

Politics and the Arts aside, what scientific regulation states
that a person must use the name that they described their
first species for the remainder of their career?  Are there
biological publishing regulations that prevent a person from
legally changing their name mid career?  Which, of course, is
Scott's original question.  I can't imagine?

Rich Goldberg
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 09:24:50 -0500
>From: "Harry G. Lee" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Surname change
>To: [log in to unmask]
>
>Dear Richie,
>
>How about an eminent eighteenth century scientist who was
given the
>ultimate honorific for his sentinel contribution to biology
then used that
>name exclusively in his authorship of works spanning nearly two
>decades?  Does such a name change, Linné né Linnaeus, warrant
the same
>consideration as, say, Clinton née Rodham (maiden name), Ali
né Clay (nom
>de guerre), Saki né Monro (nom de plume), William Boyd a.k.a
Hopalong
>Cassidy (persona), Peewee né Harold Reese (nickname)?
>
>Harry
>
>
>At 10:26 PM 12/31/2005, you wrote:
>>Scott,
>>
>>I hope I am not misiterpreting your question.
>>
>>I think however a scientist decides to published their name
>>after marriage or for any reason, should predicate how it is
>>used and indexed.  Then it is up to the historical annals to
>>document the name change if warranted.
>>
>>A number of my friends in the film and television business who
>>made names for themselves while single continue to use their
>>maden names in credits. Some have not.  Others have hyphenated
>>their maden and married names.  Their works are indexed by the
>>name that appears on the credits of the current film.
>>
>>I would assume a scientist has the same personal choice and
>>should be respected for that choice.
>>
>>Richard (Goldberg)
>>
>>
>>---- Original message ----
>> >Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 11:53:42 -0800
>> >From: Scott Jordan <[log in to unmask]>
>> >Subject: Surname change
>> >To: [log in to unmask]
>> >
>> >   How does one cite a worker whose name has changed
>> >   during the course of his or her career, for example
>> >   a female taxonomist who marries and takes her
>> >   husband's surname?  Any precedent here?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   Scott
>>
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