List of scientific laws named after people

This is a list of scientific laws named after people (eponymous laws). For other lists of eponyms, see eponym.

Law	Field	Person(s) Named After
Abel's theorem	Calculus	Niels Henrik Abel
Amdahl's law	Computer science	Gene Amdahl
Ampère's law	Physics	André-Marie Ampère
Archie's law	Geology	Gus Archie
Archimedes' principle	Physics	Archimedes
Arrhenius equation	Chemical kinetics	Svante Arrhenius
Avogadro's law	Thermodynamics	Amedeo Avogadro
Beer?Lambert law	Optics	August Beer, Johann Heinrich Lambert
Bernoulli's principle Bernoulli's equation	Physical sciences	Daniel Bernoulli
Biot?Savart law	Electromagnetics, fluid dynamics	Jean Baptiste Biot and Felix Savart
Boltzmann equation	Thermodynamics	Ludwig Boltzmann
Boyle's law	Thermodynamics	Robert Boyle
Bradford's law	Computer science	Samuel C. Bradford
Buys-Ballot's law	Meteorology	C.H.D. Buys Ballot
Carnot's theorem	Thermodynamics	Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
Cauchy's integral formula Cauchy-Riemann equations	Complex analysis	Augustin Louis Cauchy Augustin Louis Cauchy and Bernhard Riemann
Cayley-Hamilton theorem	Linear algebra	Arthur Cayley and William Hamilton
Charles's law	Thermodynamics	Jacques Charles
Church?Turing thesis	Computer science	Alonzo Church and Alan Turing
Coulomb's law	Physics	Charles Augustin de Coulomb
Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac (frequently called Charles's law)	Thermodynamics	Jacques Charles and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Dalton's law of partial pressure	Thermodynamics	John Dalton
Darcy's Law	Fluid mechanics	Henry Darcy
De Morgan's law	Logic	Augustus De Morgan
Dermott's Law	Celestial mechanics	Stanley Dermott
Descartes' theorem	Geometry	René Descartes
Dirac equation	Physics	Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
Drake equation	Cosmology	Frank Drake
Einstein's general theory of relativity	Physics	Albert Einstein
Euclid's theorem	Number theory	Euclid
Euler's theorem	Number theory	Leonhard Euler
Faraday's law of induction Faraday's law of electrolysis	Electromagnetism Chemistry	Michael Faraday
Fermat's principle Fermat's last theorem Fermat's little theorem	Optics Number theory Number theory	Pierre de Fermat
Fermi paradox	Cosmology	Enrico Fermi
Fick's law of diffusion	Thermodynamics	Adolf Fick
Fitts's law	Ergonomics	Paul Fitts
Fourier's law	Thermodynamics	Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Gauss' law	Physics	Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
Gibbs?Helmholtz equation	Thermodynamics	Josiah Willard Gibbs, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz
Gödel's incompleteness theorem	Mathematics	Kurt Gödel
Graham's law	Thermodynamics	Thomas Graham
Grimm's law	Linguistics	Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle	Theoretical physics	Werner Heisenberg
Hellmann?Feynman theorem	Physics	Hans Hellmann, Richard Feynman
Henry's law	Thermodynamics	William Henry
Hess's law	Thermodynamics	Germain Henri Hess
Hohenberg?Kohn theorem	Quantum mechanics	Pierre Hohenberg and Walter Kohn
Hooke's law	Physics	Robert Hooke
Hubble's law	Cosmology	Edwin Hubble
Huygens-Fresnel principle	Optics	Christiaan Huygens and Augustin-Jean Fresnel
Joule's law	Physics	James Joule
Kepler's laws of planetary motion	Astrophysics	Johannes Kepler
Kirchhoff's laws	Electronics, thermodynamics	Gustav Kirchhoff
Kopp's Law	Thermodynamics	Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp
Le Chatelier's principle	Chemistry	Henri Louis le Chatelier
Leibniz's law	Ontology	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Lenz's law	Physics	Heinrich Lenz
l'Hôpital's rule	Mathematics	Guillaume de l'Hôpital
Maxwell's equations Maxwell relations	Electrodynamics Thermodynamics	James Clerk Maxwell
Metcalfe's law	Network theory	Robert Metcalfe
Minkowski's theorem	Number theory	Hermann Minkowski
Moore's law	Computing	Gordon Moore
Nash embedding theorem Nash equilibrium	Topology Game Theory	John Forbes Nash
Nernst equation	Electrochemistry	Walther Nernst
Newton's law of cooling Newton's law of gravitation Newton's laws of motion	Thermodynamics Astrophysics Mechanics	Isaac Newton
Noether's theorem	Theoretical physics	Emmy Noether
Nurgaliev's law	Demography	Nurgaliev's law
Nyquist?Shannon sampling theorem	Information theory	Harry Nyquist, Claude Elwood Shannon
Occam's Razor	Philosophy of science	William of Ockham
Ohm's law	Electronics	Georg Ohm
Pascal's law Pascal's theorem	Physics Geometry	Blaise Pascal
Pareto distribution Pareto efficiency Pareto index Pareto principle	Economics	Vilfredo Pareto
Pauli exclusion principle	Quantum mechanics	Wolfgang Pauli
Peano axioms	Foundational mathematics	Giuseppe Peano
Planck's law of black body radiation	Electromagnetism	Max Planck
Poiseuille's law	Fluidics	Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille
Poisson distribution Poisson's equation	Statistics Calculus	Siméon Denis Poisson
Ptolemy's theorem	Geometry	Ptolemy
Pythagorean theorem	Geometry	Pythagoras
Raoult's law	Physical chemistry	Francois Marie Raoult
Riemann zeta function Riemann hypothesis Riemann integral Riemann lemma Riemannian manifold Riemann sphere Riemann theta function	Number theory, analysis, geometry	Bernhard Riemann
Rolle's theorem	Differential calculus	Michel Rolle
Schrödinger equation	Physics	Erwin Schrödinger
Snell's law	Optics	Willebrord van Roijen Snell
Sommerfeld-Kossel displacement law	Spectroscopy	Arnold Sommerfeld and Walther Kossel
Stefan?Boltzmann law	Thermodynamics	Jo?ef Stefan and Ludwig Boltzmann
Stokes' law	Fluid mechanics	George Gabriel Stokes
Titius?Bode law	Astrophysics	Johann Daniel Titius and Johann Elert Bode
Torricelli's law	Physics	Evangelista Torricelli
Van der Waals equation	Chemistry	Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Wien's law	Physics	Wilhelm Wien
Zipf's law	Linguistics	George Kingsley Zipf

List of scientific laws named after people

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