Edward Kasner was an American mathematician, born: 1878, died: 1955.
In the late 1930's, he was once asked to come up with a name for a very large number. He outsourced this task to his nephew, Milton Sirotta, who in turn coined the word "googol." A googol is 10 raised to the 100th power (i.e., a 1 followed immediately by a hundred zeroes.)