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====== Patrice Eastaughffe ======

**Patrice Eastaughffe** (11 June 1882 - 23 December 1952) was a scientist and founder of [[The Ring]]. Named by many as one of the most influential people in the XX century, Patrice Eastaughffe led a group of scientists who have discovered [[dimension_types|other dimensions]] and developed the [[Normal Portal]].

Today Eastaughffe is also known for her extremely private way of life, so much so that after her death it was realized that there are no public records about even the most basic facts of her life. Several biographers have attempted to write the story of her life, but quickly gave up due to not being able to find enough information. The infamous biographer [[Frank Dupeaux]] has published a story of her life entitled [[When the Bough Breaks|When the Bough Breaks: What we don't know about Patrice Eastaughffe]], where he speculated about what her life could have been like. His book has received praise from both readers and critics, however the consensus was that Dupeaux has written a touching story, but it most definitely has nothing to do with reality.

===== Early days =====

Eastaughffe was born in 1882 in New York, to Maurice and Claudia Eastaughffe. A middle class family, Eastaughffes were generally well to do. Maurice Eastaughffe owned a small but known pocketwatch shop [[tillie's|"Tillie's"]] on 5th Avenue. It was also a bar and a way to evade police or otherwise unwanted company, since one could go through Tillie's from East 11th to East 12th Street.

From the early age, Patrice was interested in science, kittens and steam heaters. The latter is captured in the fact that The Ring has a steam heater on its underground floor. [[Frank Dupeaux]] speculates that the steam heater in The Ring underground floor was used as a secret passage to Eastaughffe's secret home, but he offers no evidence of this. The steam heater was inspected following Dupeaux's book, but no signs of the steam heater being other than an ordinary steam heater was found. To this the conspiracy peddling organization [[WTF]] responds: "Of course!"

She went to public school 81 in New York, and then studied with Professor Vinaigrette at Cornell University. Earning her physicist degree she went on to work at the [[Experimental Physics Institute]] to try to create an invisibility cloak by firing anti-photons at the subject. She was joined by [[Fred Rogers]], another physicist from Cornell, who was also interested in working on something "disruptive", as he put it. Together, they hired a team of assistants and began work.

===== Normal Portal =====

The invisibility experiments had quickly failed, but Eastaughffe was so disappointed at the quick failure that she made sure to analyze the data they had gathered. Her analysis uncovered some inconsistencies, and further investigations eventually led to the discovery of [[dimension_types|other dimensions]] and the development of Normal Portal.

First results were published in a joint article by Eastaughffe, Rogers et. all in 1901. By this time the fate of the Experimental Physics Institute was in jeopardy and Eastaughffe moved her team to Urban Labs, where work continued.

In 1903 they published an article demonstrating the ability of the seeker device developed by the lab to penetrate through dimensions.

By 1905 Eastaughffe and Rogers had produced results with such lasting implications for physics that they were able to open their own lab, which they named [[The Ring]] due to the shape of the facility, which was built in a form of a donut, with a huge circular corridor. The architecture looked very impressive at the time, but The Ring was criticized for wasting too much space on the corridor. A lot of the equipment, however, is hosted underground, and the main labs B and C are underground as well.

It is at The Ring that Eastaughffe and Rogers have completed the seeker design which allowed to lock the connection between our Universe and other realms, thus securing an interdimensional link (a funnel). The Normal Portal was born. It took 15 more years to be able to develop a saving system, that would reliably re-connect with a given dimension.
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