Scientific phenomena named after people
This is a list of scientific phenomena and concepts named after people (eponymous phenomena). For other lists of eponyms, see eponym.
- Baeyer-Drewson indigo synthesis ? Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer and Viggo Drewsen
- Baeyer-Villiger oxidation and Baeyer-Villiger rearrangement ? Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer and Victor Villiger
- Bagnold number ? Ralph Alger Bagnold
- Baily's beads ? Francis Baily
- Baker-Nathan effect ? John William Baker and Wilfred S. Nathan
- Bakerian mimicry ? Herbert G. Baker
- Balmer line, series ? Johann Jakob Balmer
- Bamberger rearrangement ? Eugen Bamberger
- Bamford-Stevens reaction ? William Randall Bamford and Thomas Stevens Stevens
- Barbier-Wieland reaction ? François Antoine Phillipe Barbier and Heinrich Otto Wieland
- Bardeen vacuum ? James Maxwell Bardeen
- Barkhausen effect ? Heinrich Barkhausen
- Barnett effect ? Samuel Jackson Barnett
- Barnett-Monstein effect – Samuel Jackson Barnett and Christian Monstein
- Barnum effect (a.k.a. Forer effect) ? Phineas Taylor Barnum (and Bertram R. Forer)
- Barro-Ricardo equivalence ? Robert Barro and David Ricardo
- Bartlett-Condon-Schneider reaction ? Paul Doughty Bartlett, Francis Edward Condon, and Abraham Schneider
- Barton reaction ? Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton
- Barton-McCombie reaction ? Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton and Stuart W. McCombie
- Baskerville effect ? the fictional Charles Baskerville of the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Batesian mimicry ? Henry Walter Bates
- Båth's law ? Markus Båth
- Bayes' theorem ? Rev. Thomas Bayes
- Baylis-Hillman reaction ? Anthony B. Baylis and Melville E. D. Hillman
- Bayliss effect ? William M. Bayliss
- BCS superconduction theory ? John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and Robert Schrieffer
- Beaufort scale (Beaufort wind force scale) ? Sir Francis Beaufort
- Beckmann rearrangement ? Ernst Otto Beckmann
- Becquerel effect ? Henri Becquerel
- Beer's law (a.k.a. Beer-Lambert law or Beer-Lambert-Bouguer law) ? August Beer (and Johann Heinrich Lambert and Pierre Bouguer)
- Beilstein's test ? Friedrich Konrad Beilstein
- Bejan number ? Adrian Bejan
- Bekenstein bound ? Jacob Bekenstein
- Bell's inequality ? John Stewart Bell
- Bell number ? Eric Temple Bell
- Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction ? Boris Pavlovich Belousov and Anatol Markovich Zhabotinskii
- Bénard cell ? Henri Bénard
- Bénard-Marangoni cell/convection (a.k.a. Marangoni convection) ? Henri Bénard and Carlo Marangoni
- Benedicks effect ? Manson Benedicks
- Benedict's test ? Stanley Rossiter Benedict
- Benford's law ? Frank Albert Benford, Jr.
- Benioff zone ? see Wadati-Benioff zone, below
- Bennett pinch ? Willard Harrison Bennett
- Benkeser reduction ? Robert Anthony Benkeser
- Berezinsky?Kosterlitz?Thouless transition ? Veniamin L. Berezinsky, John M. Kosterlitz, and David J. Thouless
- Bergman cyclization ? Robert George Bergman
- Bergmann's rule ? Christian Bergmann
- Bergmann-Zervas carbobenzoxy method ? Max Bergmann and Leonidas Zervas
- Bernoulli effect, Bernoulli's equation, principle ? Daniel Bernoulli
- Berry's phase ? Michael V. Berry
- Betz limit ? Albert Betz
- Bezold-Brücke effect (a.k.a. von Bezold spreading effect) ? Johann Friedrich Wilhelm von Bezold and Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke
- Biefeld-Brown effect ? Paul Alfred Biefeld and Thomas Townsend Brown
- Biginelli reaction ? Pietro Biginelli
- Bingham number ? Eugene C. Bingham
- Biot number ? Jean-Baptiste Biot
- Biot-Savart law ? Jean-Baptiste Biot and Félix Savart
- Birch reduction ? Arthur John Birch
- Birge-Hopfield bands ? see Lyman-Birge-Hopfield bands, below
- Birkeland currents ? Kristian Birkeland
- Birman-Williams theorem ? Joan Sylvia Lyttle Birman and Robert F. Williams
- Bischler-Napieralski synthesis ? August Bischler and Bernard Napieralski
- Black's law (a. k. a. Black's equation) for electromigration ? James R. Black (d. 2004) of Motorola
- Blake number ? Frank C. Blake (1892-1926) US chemist
- Blazhko effect ? Sergei Blazhko
- Bloch wave ? Felix Bloch
- Bodenstein number ? probably Max Bodenstein (1871 ? 1942)
- Bohm sheath criterion ? David Bohm
- Bohr effect ? Christian Bohr
- Bohr magneton, model, radius ? Neils Bohr
- Boltzmann constant ? Ludwig Boltzmann
- Boltzmann number (a.k.a. Thring number) ? Ludwig Boltzmann (or ? Thring)
- Bond number ? ? Bond
- Borch reduction ? Richard Frederic Borch
- Borel algebra, measure, set, space, summation, Borel's lemma, paradox ? Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel
- Borel-Cantelli lemma ? Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel and Francesco Paolo Cantelli
- Borel-Carathéodory theorem ? Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel and Constantin Carathéodory
- Bormuth index ? John R. Bormuth
- Born-Haber cycle ? Max Born and Fritz Haber
- Born-Oppenheimer approximation ? Max Born and Robert Oppenheimer
- Borodin-Hunsdiecker reaction ? Aleksandr Porphyrevich Borodin, Hienz Hunsdiecker, and Clare Hunsdiecker (née Dieckmann)
- Borrmann effect (a.k.a. Borrmann-Campbell effect) ? Gerhard Borrman (and H. N. Campbell)
- Bortle Dark-Sky Scale ? John E. Bortle
- Bose-Einstein condensate, effect, statistics ? Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein
- Boson ? Satyendra Nath Bose
- Boussinesq number ? Joseph Boussinesq
- Bouveault-Blanc reaction ? Louis Bouveault and Gustave Louis Blanc
- Bouveault-Locquin synthesis ? Louis Bouveault and René Locquin
- Boyle's law (a.k.a. Boyle-Mariotte law) ? Robert Boyle (and Edme Mariotte)
- Brackett line, series ? Frederick Sumner Brackett
- Bragg angle, Bragg's law, Bragg plane ? William Henry Bragg and his son William Lawrence Bragg
- Bragg diffraction ? William Lawrence Bragg
- Brans-Dicke theory ? Carl H. Brans and Robert H. Dicke
- Braun-Blanquet method ? Josias Braun-Blanquet
- Bravais lattice ? Auguste Bravais
- Bravais-Miller indices (a.k.a. Miller-Bravais indices) ? Auguste Bravais and William Hallowes Miller
- Brayton cycle ? George B. Brayton
- Bredt's rule - Julius Bredt
- Brewster's angle, law ? David Brewster
- Brillouin-Mandel'shtam effect ? see Mandel'shtam-Brillouin scattering, below
- Brillouin zone ? Léon Brillouin
- Brinkman layer, number ? Hendrik C. Brinkman
- Brinkman-Forchheimer equations ? Hendrik C. Brinkman and Philipp Forchheimer
- Brook rearrangement ? Adrian Gibbs Brook
- Brownian motion ? Robert Brown
- Brownell-Katz number ? Lloyd E. Brownell and Donald L. Katz
- Bucherer reaction ? Hans Theodor Bucherer
- Büchi automata ? Julius Richard Büchi
- Buckingham theorem (a.k.a. Vaschy-Buckingham theorem) ? Edgar Buckingham (and Aimé Vaschy)
- Bulygen number ? ? Bulygen
- Burali-Forti paradox ? Cesare Burali-Forti
- Butcher-Oemler effect ? Harvey Raymond Butcher and Augustus Oemler, Jr.
- Cabannes-Daure effect ? Jean Cabannes and Pierre Daure
- Cadiot-Chodkiewicz coupling, reaction ? Paul Cadiot and Wladyslav Chodkiewicz
- Callendar Effect ? Guy Stewart Callendar
- Callier effect ? André Callier
- Callippic cycle ? Callippus of Cyzicus
- Calvin cycle (a.k.a. Calvin-Benson cycle) ? Melvin Calvin (and Andy Benson)
- Cannizzaro reaction ? Stanislao Cannizzaro
- Cardan angles (a.k.a. Tait-Bryan angles) ? Gerolamo Cardano
- Carnot cycle, number ? Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
- Carpenter effect (a.k.a. Ideomotor effect) ? William Benjamin Carpenter
- Cartan?Kähler theorem ? Élie Cartan, Erich Kähler
- Casimir effect ? Hendrik Casimir
- Catalan's conjecture (a.k.a. Mih?ilescu's theorem), Catalan numbers ? Eugène Charles Catalan
- Cauchy number (a.k.a. Hooke number) ? Augustin-Louis Cauchy
- Cauchy-Kovalevskaya theorem ? Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Sofia Kovalevskaya
- Cauer filter ? Wilhelm Cauer
- Chandler wobble ? Seth Carlo Chandler
- Chandrasekhar effect, limit, number ? Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- Chapman rearrangement ? Arthur William Chapman
- Chappuis bands (sometimes misspelled "Chappius") ? J. Chappuis
- Chebyshev distance, equation, filter, linkage, polynomials ? Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev
- Chebyshev's inequality (a.k.a. Bienaymé-Chebyshev inequality) ? Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (and Irénée-Jules Bienaymé)
- Cherenkov radiation (a.k.a. Cherenkov-Vavilov radiation) ? Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (and Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov)
- Chichibabin pyridine amination reaction ? Alexei Yevgenievich Chichibabin
- Christiansen cavity, effect, filter ? Christian Christiansen
- Christoffel symbol ? Elwin Bruno Christoffel
- Christofilos effect ? Nicholas Christofilos
- Chugaev elimination/reaction, reagent ? Lev Aleksandrovich Chugaev
- Ciamician photodisproportionation, synthesis ? Giacomo Luigi Ciamician
- Claisen condensation, rearrangement ? Rainer Ludwig Claisen
- Claisen-Ireland rearrangement ? Rainer Ludwig Claisen and Robert Ellsworth Ireland
- Claisen-Schmidt reaction ? Rainer Ludwig Claisen and J. Gustav Schmidt
- Clapp oscillator ? James K. Clapp
- Clarke orbit ? Arthur C. Clarke
- Clausius number ? Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius
- Clayden effect ? Arthur W. Clayden
- Clemmensen reduction ? Erik Christian Clemmensen
- Clifton effect ? Rachel K. Clifton
- Coanda effect ? Henri Coanda
- Coase theorem ? Ronald Coase
- Coke-Rothkopf index ? Ester U. Coke and Ernst Z. Rothkopf
- Colburn-Chilton analogy (a.k.a. Colburn analogy) ? Allan Philip Colburn and Thomas H. Chilton
- Coleman-Liau index ? Meri Coleman and T. L. Liau
- Coleman-Mandula theorem ? Sidney Coleman and Jeffrey Mandula
- Colpitts oscillator ? Edwin H. Colpitts
- Compton effect, scattering, wavelength ? Arthur Compton
- Coolidge effect ? from a joke attributed to John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.
- Cooper pair ? Leon Cooper
- Cope elimination, rearrangement ? Arthur Clay Cope
- Corey-Fuchs reaction ? Elias James Corey and Philip L. Fuchs
- Corey-Kim oxidation ? Elias James Corey and Choung Un Kim
- Corey-Winter olefin synthesis ? Elias James Corey and Roland Arthur Edwin Winter
- Coriolis effect ? Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis
- Cornforth rearrangement ? Sir John Warcup Cornforth
- Cotton effect ? Aimé Auguste Cotton
- Cotton-Mouton effect ? Aimé Auguste Cotton and H. Mouton
- Coulomb constant, law ? Charles Augustin de Coulomb
- Coulter counter, principle ? Wallace Henry Coulter
- Cowling number ? probably Thomas George Cowling
- Coxeter-Dynkin diagram ? Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter and Eugene Borisovich Dynkin
- Crabtree effect ? Herbert Grace Crabtree
- Crane-Monstein effect – Oliver Crane and Christian Monstein
- Criegee reaction, rearrangement ? Rudolf Criegee
- Curie point ? Pierre Curie
- Curry's paradox ? Haskell Curry
- Curtin-Hammett principle ? David Yarrow Curtin and Louis Plack Hammett
- Curtius rearrangement ? Theodor Curtius
- Cuvierian tubules, Cuvier's organ ? Georges Cuvier
- Dakin reaction, Dakin-West reaction - Henry Drysdale Dakin (and Randolph West)
- Dale-Chall index ? Edgar Dale and Jeanne S. Chall
- Dalton's law (of partial pressures) ? John Dalton
- Danishefsky reaction ? Samuel J. Danishefsky
- Darlington pair ? Sidney Darlington
- Darwin point ? Charles Darwin
- Darzens condensation ? Auguste George Darzens
- de Broglie wavelength ? Louis de Broglie
- de Bruijn sequences ? Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn
- de Haas-Van Alphen effect ? Wander Johannes de Haas and P. M. van Alphen
- de Haas-Shubnikov effect (a.k.a. Shubnikov-De Haas effect) ? Wander Johannes de Haas and Lev Vasiljevich Shubnikov
- Deborah number – the prophetess Deborah (Bible, Judges 5:5)
- Debye effect, length, model, shielding ? Peter Joseph William Debye
- Debye-Falkenhagen effect ? Peter Joseph William Debye and Hans Falkenhagen
- Richard Dedekind has many topics named after him; see biography article.
- Delbrück scattering ? Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück
- Delépine reaction ? Stéphane Marcel Delépine
- Dellinger effect (a.k.a. Mögel-Dellinger effect) ? John Howard Dellinger (and Hans Mögel)
- Demjanov rearrangement ? Nikolai Jakovlevich Demjanov
- Dess-Martin oxidation ? Daniel Benjamin Dess and James Cullen Martin
- Destriau effect ? Georges Destriau
- deVries effect ? Hessel deVries
- Dieckmann condensation ? Walter Dieckmann
- Diels-Alder reaction ? Otto Paul Hermann Diels and Kurt Alder
- Diophantine equation ? Diophantus of Alexandria
- Dirac comb, constant, equation, delta function, measure ? Paul Dirac
- Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet has dozens of formulas named after him.
- Divisia index ? François Divisia
- Doebner-Miller reaction ? Oscar Döbner (Doebner) and Wilhelm von Miller
- Dollo's law ? Louis Dollo
- Donnan effect (a.k.a. Gibbs-Donnan effect) ? see Gibbs-Donnan effect, below
- Doppler effect (a.k.a. Doppler-Fizeau effect), Doppler profile ? Christian Doppler (and Hippolyte Fizeau)
- Dötz reaction ? Karl Heinz Dötz
- Drake equation ((a.k.a. Sagan equation, Green Bank equation) ? Frank Drake (or Carl Sagan or Green Bank, West Virginia, home to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO))
- Droste effect ? Dutch chocolate maker Droste
- Drude model ? Paul Drude
- Duff's device ? Tom Duff
- Duffing equation, map ? ? Duffing
- Duhamel's formula, integral, and principle ? Jean-Maria-Constant Duhamel
- Dulong-Petit law ? Pierre Louis Dulong and Alexis Thérèse Petit
- Dunitz angle ? Jack David Dunitz
- Durfee polynomial, square ? William H. Durfee
- Faà di Bruno's formula ? Francesco Faà di Bruno
- Faraday constant, effect, Faraday's law of induction, Faraday's law of electrolysis ? Michael Faraday
- Farnsworth-Hirsch fusor ? Philo T. Farnsworth and Robert L. Hirsch
- Farr-Jenkins-Paterson index ? James N. Farr, James J. Jenkins, and Donald G. Paterson
- Favorskii reaction, rearrangement ? Alexei Yevgrafovich Favorskii
- Fehling reaction ? Herman Christian von Fehling
- Fenton reaction ? Henry John Horstman Fenton
- Fermat's principle ? Pierre de Fermat
- Fermi energy, paradox, surface, Fermion ? Enrico Fermi
- Fermi-Dirac statistics ? Enrico Fermi and Paul Dirac
- Ferrers diagram (a.k.a. Young diagram, Ferrers graph) ? Norman Macleod Ferrers
- Feshbach resonance ? Herman Feshbach
- Feynman diagram ? Richard Feynman
- Feynman-Kac model ? Richard Feynman and Mark Kac
- Finkelstein reaction ? Hans Finkelstein
- Fischer esterification, indole synthesis ? Emil Hermann Fischer
- Fischer-Hafner reaction ? Ernst Otto Fischer and Walter Hafner
- Fischer-Tropsch process ? Franz Joseph Emil Fischer and Hans Tropsch
- Fischer-Hepp rearrangement ? Otto Philipp Fischer and Eduard Hepp
- Fisher distribution ? Ronald A. Fisher
- Fisher equation ? Irving Fisher
- Fitts' law ? Paul M. Fitts
- Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test ? Rudolf F. Flesch and J. Peter Kincaid
- Fletcher effect (economy) ? T. W. Fletcher
- Fletcher effect (physics) (a.k.a. Hartman effect, Hartman-Fletcher effect) ? John R. Fletcher (and Thomas E. Hartman)
- Fletcher effect (psychology) (Fletcher-Munson effect) and Fletcher-Munson curve ? Harvey Fletcher and Wilden A. Munson
- Flynn effect ? James R. Flynn
- Fog index ? see Gunning Fog index, below
- Forbush effect ? Scott Ellsworth Forbush
- Forer effect (a.k.a. Barnum effect) ? Bertram R. Forer (and Phineas Taylor Barnum)
- Foucault effect (a.k.a. Foucault pendulum) ? Jean Bernard Léon Foucault
- Fourier number ? Joseph Fourier
- Franck-Condon factor, principle, transition ? James Franck and Edward Uhler Condon
- Franssen effect ? Nico Franssen
- Franz-Keldysh effect ? Walter Franz and Leonid V. Keldysh
- Fraunhofer diffraction, lines ? Joseph von Fraunhofer
- Fresnel zone ? Augustin Fresnel
- Frey effect ? Allan H. Frey
- Friedel oscillations ? Jacques Friedel
- Friedel-Crafts reaction ? Charles Friedel and James Mason Crafts
- Friedländer synthesis ? Paul Friedländer
- Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker metric (a.k.a. Friedmann-Robertson-Walker metric, Robertson-Walker metric) ? Alexander Friedmann, Georges Lemaître, Howard Percy Robertson and Arthur Geoffrey Walker
- Fries and Photo-Fries rearrangement ? Karl Theophil Fries
- Fritsch-Buttenberg-Wiechell rearrangement ? Paul Ernst Moritz Fritsch, Wilhelm Paul Buttenberg, and Heinrich G. Wiechell
- Frobenius algebra, automorphism, method, norm, theorem ? Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
- Fröhlich term ? Herbert Fröhlich
- Froude number ? William Froude
- Fry Readability Formula, Graph ? Edward Fry
- Fujita scale (a.k.a. F-Scale, Fujita-Pearson scale) ? Tetsuya Theodore Fujita (and Allen Pearson)
- Fujiwhara effect ? Sakuhei Fujiwhara
- Gabriel synthesis ? Siegmund Gabriel
- Gantmakher effect ? Vsevolod Feliksovich Gantmakher
- Gattermann reaction ? Ludwig Gattermann
- Gattermann-Koch reaction ? Ludwig Gattermann and Julius Arnold Koch
- Gause's principle/law ? Georgyi Frantsevitch Gause
- Gauss effect, Gauss' law ? Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Geib-Spevack process (a.k.a. Girdler sulfide (GS) process) ? Karl-Hermann Geib and Jerome S. Spevack (and the Girdler company, which built the first American plant using the process)
- Geiger counter (a.k.a. Geiger-Müller counter) ? Johannes Wilhelm (Hans) Geiger (and Walther Müller)
- Geiger-Marsden experiment (a.k.a. Rutherford experiment) ? Johannes Wilhelm (Hans) Geiger and Ernest Marsden
- Geiger-Müller tube ? Johannes Wilhelm (Hans) Geiger and Walther Müller
- Geiger-Nuttall law/rule ? Johannes Wilhelm (Hans) Geiger and John Mitchell Nuttall
- Geissler tube ? Heinrich Geissler
- Gibbs entropy, free energy, paradox, Gibbs' phase rule, Gibbs phenomenon ? Josiah Willard Gibbs
- Gibbs-Donnan effect (a.k.a. Donnan effect) ? Josiah Willard Gibbs and Frederick G. Donnan
- Gibbs-Marangoni effect (a.k.a. Marangoni effect) ? Josiah Willard Gibbs and Carlo Marangoni
- Gibbs-Helmholtz equation ? Josiah Willard Gibbs and Hermann von Helmholtz
- Gibbs-Thomson effect ? Josiah Willard Gibbs and three Thomsons: James Thomson, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Sir J. J. Thomson
- Giffen good ? Sir Robert Giffen
- Girdler process (a.k.a. Geib-Spevack (GS) process) ? see Geib-Spevack process, above
- Glaser coupling reaction ? Carl Andreas Glaser
- Goldbach's conjecture ? Christian Goldbach
- Goldstone boson (a.k.a. Nambu-Goldstone boson) ? see Nambu-Goldstone boson, below
- Gomberg-Bachmann reaction ? Moses Gomberg and Werner Emmanuel Bachmann
- Goodhart's law ? Charles Goodhart
- Goos-Hänchen effect/shift ? F. Goos and H. Lindberg-Hänchen
- Graham reaction ? William Hardin Graham
- Grashof number ? Franz Grashof
- Gregory's diverticulum ? Emily Ray Gregory
- Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cut-off/limit ? Kenneth Greisen, Georgiy Zatsepin and Vadim Kuzmin
- Gresham's law ? Sir Thomas Gresham
- Grieco condensation ? Paul Anthony Grieco
- Griess test (diazotization reaction) ? Johann Peter Griess
- Grignard reaction ? François Auguste Victor Grignard
- Grob fragmentation ? Cyril A. Grob
- Grotrian diagram ? Walter Robert Wilhelm Grotrian
- Grotthuss chain ? Christian Johann Dietrich Theodor von Grotthuss
- Grotthuss-Draper law ? Christian Johann Dietrich Theodor von Grotthuss and John William Draper
- Guggenheim method ? Edward Armand Guggenheim
- Gunn diode, effect ? John Battiscombe Gunn
- Gunning fog index (a.k.a. Fog index) ? Robert Gunning ("fog" is the noun)
- Gutenberg-Richter law ? Beno Gutenberg and Charles Francis Richter
- Haar measure ? Alfréd Haar
- Hadamard inequality ? Jacques Solomon Hadamard
- Hadamard-Rademacher-Walsh transform (a.k.a. Hadamard transform) ? Jacques Solomon Hadamard, Hans Adolph Rademacher, and Joseph Leonard Walsh
- Haldane effect ? John Scott Haldane
- Haldane's principle ? John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
- Hall effect ? Edwin Hall
- Hamilton's rule ? William Donald "Bill" Hamilton
- Hammond postulate ? George Simms Hammond
- Hanle effect ? Wilhelm Hanle
- Hanlon's razor (a.k.a. Heinlein's razor) ? Robert J. Hanlon (or Robert A. Heinlein)
- Hansch constant ? Corwin Herman Hansch
- Hardy notation, space ? Godfrey H. Hardy
- Hardy-Littlewood circle method, first conjecture ? Godfrey H. Hardy and John E. Littlewood
- Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium/law/principle ? Wilhelm Weinberg and Godfrey H. Hardy
- Harrod-Johnson diagram ? Roy F. Harrod and Harry G. Johnson
- Hartley bands ? Walter Noel Hartley
- Hartley oscillator ? Ralph Hartley
- Hartman effect (a.k.a. Fletcher effect, Hartman-Fletcher effect)? Thomas E. Hartman (and John R. Fletcher)
- Hartree energy ? Douglas Hartree
- Hasse condition, diagram, principle ? Helmut Hasse
- Hasse-Minkowski theorem ? Helmut Hasse and Hermann Minkowski
- Hausdorff dimension ? Felix Hausdorff
- Haworth formula ? Sir Walter Norman Haworth
- Hawthorne effect ? from the Hawthorne Works factory (where experiments were carried out 1924?1932)
- Hayflick limit ? Leonard Hayflick
- Hawking radiation (a.k.a. Bekenstein-Hawking radiation) ? Stephen Hawking (and Jacob Bekenstein)
- Hebbian learning ? Donald Olding Hebb
- Heine-Borel theorem ? Heinrich Eduard Heine and Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel
- Heinlein's razor ? see Hanlon's razor, above
- Heisenberg uncertainty principle ? Werner Heisenberg
- Hellmann-Feynman theorem ? Hans Hellmann and Richard Feynman
- Helmholtz free energy, Helmholtz resonance ? Hermann von Helmholtz
- Hénon maps ? Michel Hénon
- Henrietta's law ? see Leavitt's law, below
- Herschel effect ? Sir John Herschel
- Hertz effect ? Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
- Hertzsprung-Russell diagram ? Ejnar Hertzsprung and Henry Norris Russell
- Herzberg bands ? Gerhard Herzberg
- Heusler alloy ? Fritz Heusler
- Heyting algebra, arithmetic ? Arend Heyting
- Higgs boson, field ? Peter Higgs
- Higgs' laws ? Simon Robert Higgs
- Higgs mechanism ? see Anderson-Higgs mechanism, above
- Hilbert-Waring theorem (a.k.a. Waring's problem) ? David Hilbert and Edward Waring
- Hill sphere (a.k.a. Roche sphere) ? George William Hill (and Édouard Roche)
- Hills cloud ? Jack G. Hills
- Hipparchic cycle ? Hipparchus of Nicaea (a.k.a. Hipparchus of Rhodes)
- Hirayama family ? Kiyotsugu Hirayama
- Hirsch-Meeks fusor ? Robert L. Hirsch and Gene A. Meeks
- Hoffmann's organ ? C. K. Hoffmann
- Hofstadter's butterfly, law ? Douglas Richard Hofstadter
- Holetschek effect ? Johann Holetschek
- Hooper-Monstein effect – William J. Hooper and Christian Monstein
- Hopfield bands ? John J. Hopfield
- Hopfield network ? John J. Hopfield
- Hubbert peak ? Marion King Hubbert
- Hubble constant, expansion ? Edwin Hubble
- Hueppe's rule ? F. Hueppe
- Huggins bands ? Sir William Huggins
- Huggins effect ? William H. Huggins
- Hull rule ? Clark L. Hull
- Humphreys line, series ? Curtis J. Humphreys
- Hund's Rules ? Friedrich Hund
- Hunsdiecker reaction ? Heinz Hunsdiecker and Cläre Hunsdiecker
- Hunt effect ? Robert W. G. Hunt
- Hutchison effect ? John Hutchison
- Huygens' principle ? Christiaan Huygens
- K3 surface ? Ernst Kummer, Erich Kähler, Kunihiko Kodaira
- Kac model ? Mark Kac
- Kähler differential, manifold, metric ? Erich Kähler
- Kapitsa?Dirac effect ? Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa and Paul Dirac
- Karnaugh map (a.k.a. Karnaugh-Veitch map, Veitch diagram) ? Maurice Karnaugh (and Edward W. Veitch)
- Kater's pendulum ? Captain Henry Kater
- Kaye effect ? Alan Kaye
- Keeling curve ? Charles David Keeling
- Kelvin effect ? William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
- Kelvin-Voigt material, model – Woldemar Voigt and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
- Kennelly-Heaviside layer ? Arthur Edwin Kennelly and Oliver Heaviside
- Kerr effect ? John Kerr
- Kiepert hyperbola, parabola ? Friedrich Wilhelm August Ludwig Kiepert
- Kirkendall effect ? Ernest Kirkendall
- Klein-Gordon equation ? Oskar Klein and Walter Gordon
- Klein-Nishina effect ? Oskar Klein and Yoshio Nishina
- Knudsen cell, effect, number ? Martin Hans Christian Knudsen
- Kochen?Specker paradox ? Simon Kochen and Ernst Specker
- Kodaira dimension, embedding theorem, vanishing theorem ? Kunihiko Kodaira
- Kodaira?Spencer mapping ? Kunihiko Kodaira, Donald C. Spencer
- Koenigs?Knorr reaction ? Wilhelm Koenigs and Edward Knorr
- Kohn effect ? Walter Kohn
- Kohn-Sham equations ? Walter Kohn and Lu Jeu Sham
- Kohonen network ? Teuvo Kohonen
- Kolbe-Schmitt reaction and Kolbe electrolysis? Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe and Rudolf Schmitt
- Kondo effect ? Jun Kondo
- Kornblum oxidation and Kornblum?DeLaMare rearrangement ? Nathan Kornblume and Harold E. DeLaMare
- Koss?Gräer effect ? Brian Koss and David Gräer
- Kossel effect, Kossel lines, Kossel diagram ? Walther Kossel
- Kossel?Möllenstedt pattern ? Walther Kossel and Gottfried Möllenstedt
- Kosterlitz?Thouless transition ? see Berezinsky?Kosterlitz?Thouless transition, above
- Kostinsky effect ? Sergey Konstantinovich Kostinsky (a.k.a. S. K. Kostinskii)
- Kozai effect ? Yoshihide Kozai
- Krebs cycle ? Hans Adolf Krebs
- Kratzer potential ? Adolf Kratzer
- Krishnan effect ? Rappal S. Krishnan
- Kronecker delta ? Leopold Kronecker
- Kuiper Belt ? Gerard Kuiper
- Kummer's equation, Kummer's functions, Kummer surface ? Ernst Kummer
- Kuramoto model ? Yoshiki Kuramoto
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