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
- Baldwin effect ? James Mark Baldwin
- Balmer line, series ? Johann Jakob Balmer
- Bamberger rearrangement ? Eugen Bamberger
- Bamford-Stevens reaction ? William Randall Bamford and Thomas Stevens Stevens
- Bardeen vacuum ? James Maxwell Bardeen
- Barkhausen effect ? Heinrich Barkhausen
- Barnett effect ? Samuel Jackson Barnett
- Barnum effect (a.k.a. Forer effect) ? Phineas Taylor Barnum (and Bertram R. Forer)
- Barro-Ricardo equivalence ? Robert Barro and David Ricardo
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Biot number ? Jean-Baptiste Biot
- Biot-Savart law ? Jean-Baptiste Biot and Félix Savart
- Birch reduction ? Arthur John Birch
- Birkeland currents ? Kristian Birkeland
- Bischler-Napieralski synthesis ? August Bischler and Bernard Napieralski
- Black's equation for electromigration ? James R. Black (d. 2004) of Motorola
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 zone ? Léon Brillouin
- Brinkman number ? Hendrik C. Brinkman
- Brook rearrangement ? Adrian Gibbs Brook
- Brownian motion ? Robert Brown
- Bucherer reaction ? Hans Theodor Bucherer
- Büchi automata ? Julius Richard Büchi
- Buckingham ? theorem ? Edgar Buckingham (and Aimé Vaschy)
- Burali-Forti paradox ? Cesare Burali-Forti
- Cabannes-Daure effect ? Jean Cabannes and Pierre Daure
- Cadiot-Chodkiewicz coupling, reaction ? Paul Cadiot and Wladyslav Chodkiewicz
- Callendar effect ? Guy Stewart Callendar
- 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 limit, number ? Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- Chapman rearrangement ? Arthur William Chapman
- Charles's law ? Jacques Charles
- 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
- Chisholm's paradox ? Roderick Milton Chisholm
- 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-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
- Clemmensen reduction ? Erik Christian Clemmensen
- Coanda effect ? Henri Coanda
- Coase theorem ? Ronald Coase
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Dakin reaction, Dakin-West reaction - Henry Drysdale Dakin (and Randolph West)
- Dalton's law (of partial pressures) ? John Dalton
- Danishefsky reaction ? Samuel J. Danishefsky
- Darlington pair ? Sidney Darlington
- Darwin point, Darwinism ? 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
- Dieckmann condensation ? Walter Dieckmann
- Diels-Alder reaction ? Otto Paul Hermann Diels and Kurt Alder
- Diophantine equation ? Diophantus of Alexandria
- Dirac comb, fermion, spinor, 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 integral, and principle ? Jean-Marie Constant Duhamel
- Dulong-Petit law ? Pierre Louis Dulong and Alexis Thérèse Petit
- Bürgi-Dunitz angle ? Jack David Dunitz
- 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
- Favorskii reaction, rearrangement ? Alexei Yevgrafovich Favorskii
- 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
- 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?Munson effect and Fletcher?Munson curves ? Harvey Fletcher and Wilden A. Munson
- Flynn effect ? James R. Flynn
- 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
- Fourier?Motzkin elimination ? Joseph Fourier and Theodore Motzkin
- 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
- Froude number ? William Froude
- Fry readability formula ? 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
- Gattermann reaction ? Ludwig Gattermann
- Gattermann-Koch reaction ? Ludwig Gattermann and Julius Arnold Koch
- Gause's principle ? Georgii Gause
- Gauss's 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
- 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.Hänchen
- Grashof number ? Franz Grashof
- Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cut-off/limit ? Kenneth Greisen, Georgiy Zatsepin and Vadim Kuzmin
- Gresham's law ? Sir Thomas Gresham
- 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
- Gunn diode, effect ? John Battiscombe Gunn
- Gunning fog index ? Robert Gunning
- Gutenberg-Richter law ? Beno Gutenberg and Charles Francis Richter
- Haar measure ? Alfréd Haar
- Hadamard inequality ? Jacques Solomon Hadamard
- Hadamard transform (a.k.a. Hadamard?Rademacher?Walsh 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
- Hardy notation, space ? Godfrey Harold Hardy
- Hardy?Littlewood circle method, first conjecture ? Godfrey Harold Hardy and John E. Littlewood
- Hardy?Weinberg principle ? Wilhelm Weinberg and Godfrey Harold Hardy
- Harrod-Johnson diagram ? Roy F. Harrod and Harry G. Johnson
- Hartley oscillator ? Ralph Hartley
- Hartman effect ? Thomas E. Hartman
- Hartree energy ? Douglas Hartree
- Hasse diagram, principle ? Helmut Hasse
- Hasse?Minkowski theorem ? Helmut Hasse and Hermann Minkowski
- Hausdorff dimension ? Felix Hausdorff
- 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)
- Heaviside layer ? see Kennelly-Heaviside layer below
- 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 map ? Michel Hénon
- Henrietta's law ? see Leavitt's law, below
- Herbrand base, interpretation, structure, universe, and Herbrand's theorem ? Jacques Herbrand
- Herschel effect ? Sir John Herschel
- Hertz effect ? Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
- Hertzsprung-Russell diagram ? Ejnar Hertzsprung and Henry Norris Russell
- Heusler alloy ? Fritz Heusler
- Heyting algebra, arithmetic ? Arend Heyting
- Hick's law, a.k.a. Hick?Hyman law ? William Edmund Hick and Ray Hyman
- Higgs boson, field ? Peter 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
- Hofstadter's butterfly, law ? Douglas Richard Hofstadter
- Holetschek effect ? Johann Holetschek
- Hopfield network ? John J. Hopfield
- Hubbert peak ? Marion King Hubbert
- Hubble constant, expansion ? Edwin Hubble
- Humphreys line/series ? Curtis J. Humphreys
- Hund's Rules ? Friedrich Hund
- Hunsdiecker reaction ? Heinz Hunsdiecker and Cläre Hunsdiecker
- Hutchison effect ? John Hutchison
- Huygens?Fresnel principle ? Christiaan Huygens and Augustin-Jean Fresnel
- K3 surface ? Ernst Kummer, Erich Kähler, Kunihiko Kodaira
- Kähler differential, manifold, metric ? Erich Kähler
- 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?Joule 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
- Kepler's laws of planetary motion ? Johannes Kepler
- Kerr effect ? John Kerr
- Kirkendall effect ? Ernest Kirkendall
- Klein?Gordon equation ? Oskar Klein and Walter Gordon
- Klein-Nishina effect ? Oskar Klein and Yoshio Nishina
- Knudsen cell, number ? Martin Hans Christian Knudsen
- Kodaira dimension, embedding theorem, vanishing theorem ? Kunihiko Kodaira
- 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 Kornblum and Harold E. DeLaMare
- Kossel effect ? Walther Kossel
- Kosterlitz?Thouless transition ? see Berezinsky?Kosterlitz?Thouless transition, above
- Kozai effect ? Yoshihide Kozai
- Krebs cycle ? Hans Adolf Krebs
- Kratzer potential ? Adolf Kratzer
- Kronecker delta ? Leopold Kronecker
- Kuiper Belt ? Gerard Kuiper
- Kummer's function, Kummer surface ? Ernst Kummer
- Kuramoto model ? Yoshiki Kuramoto
- Lagrangian mechanics, Lagrange points ? Joseph Louis Lagrange
- Lamb shift ? Willis Lamb
- Lambert's cosine law (a.k.a. Lambert's emission law) ? Johann Heinrich Lambert
- Landau damping, pole ? Lev Davidovich Landau
- Landau?Pomeranchuk?Migdal effect ? Lev Davidovich Landau, Isaak Pomeranchuk, and Arkady Migdal
- Landau?Zener transition ? Lev Davidovich Landau and Clarence Zener
- Landé g-factor ? Alfred Landé
- Langmuir probe ? Irving Langmuir
- Langmuir?Blodgett film ? Irving Langmuir and Katharine B. Blodgett
- Larmor frequency, precession, radius ? Sir Joseph Larmor
- Larsen effect ? Soren Larsen
- Laspeyres index ? Ernst Louis Etienne Laspeyres
- Leavitt's law (a.k.a. Henrietta's law) ? Henrietta Swan Leavitt
- Le Chatelier's principle ? Henri Louis Le Chatelier
- Leidenfrost effect, point ? Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost
- Lenard effect ? Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard
- Lennard-Jones potential ? John Lennard-Jones
- Lense-Thirring effect (a.k.a. Thirring effect) ? Josef Lense and Hans Thirring
- Lenz's law ? Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz
- Levi-Civita symbol ? Tullio Levi-Civita
- Little-Parks effect ? W. A. Little and R. D. Parks
- Littlewood-Offord problem ? John E. Littlewood and A. Cyril Offord
- Locard's exchange principle ? Edmond Locard
- Lombard effect - Étienne Lombard
- London force ? Fritz London
- Lorentz force, transformation ? Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
- Lorentz?Lorenz equation ? Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Ludvig Lorenz
- Lorenz attractor ? Edward Norton Lorenz
- Lorenz curve ? Max O. Lorenz
- Lorenz gauge condition ? Ludvig Lorenz
- Lorenz-Mie scattering ? see Mie scattering, below
- Loschmidt's paradox ? Johann Loschmidt
- Lotka-Volterra equation ? Alfred J. Lotka and Vito Volterra
- Love waves ? Augustus Edward Hough Love
- Lucas critique ? Robert Lucas, Jr.
- Lyapunov's central limit theorem, equation, exponent, fractal, function, stability, test, time and tube ? Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov
- Lyman line, series ? Theodore Lyman
- Mach band/effect, number, principle ? Ernst Mach
- Mach-Zehnder interferometer ? Ernst Mach and Ludwig Zehnder
- Madelung constant, Madelung rule, Madelung energy ? Erwin Madelung
- Maggi-Righi-Leduc effect ? Gian Antonio Maggi, Augusto Righi and S. Leduc
- Magnus effect ? Heinrich Gustav Magnus
- Mahalanobis distance ? Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (???????? ?????? ????????)
- Mahler measure, Mahler's theorem ? Kurt Mahler
- Malmquist bias, effect ? Karl Gunnar Malmquist
- Malus' law ? Étienne-Louis Malus
- Malthusian parameter ? named by Ronald Fisher as a criticism of Thomas Robert Malthus
- Malthusian catastrophe, growth model ? Thomas Robert Malthus
- Mandel'shtam-Brillouin scattering ? Leonid Isaakovich Mandel'shtam and Léon Brillouin
- Marangoni cell/convection (a.k.a. Bénard-Marangoni convection) ? see Bénard-Marangoni cell/convection, above
- Marangoni effect (a.k.a. Gibbs-Marangoni effect) ? see Gibbs-Marangoni effect, above
- Markov's inequality, chain, partition, Markovian process ? Andrey Markov
- Mathieu functions ? Émile Léonard Mathieu
- Matilda effect ? Matilda Joslyn Gage
- Matthew effect ? Matthew the Evangelist
- Maxwell effect (optics) ? James Clark Maxwell
- Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution ? James Clark Maxwell and Ludwig Boltzmann
- Maxwell-Wien bridge ? James Clark Maxwell(?) and Wilhelm Wien
- Mazurkiewicz trace ? Antoni Mazurkiewicz
- McCollough effect ? Celeste McCollough
- McCulloch-Pitts neuron ? Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts
- McGurk effect (a.k.a. McGurk-MacDonald effect) ? Harry McGurk (and John MacDonald
- Mealy machine ? George H. Mealy
- Meissner effect (a.k.a. Meissner-Ochsenfeld effect) ? Walter Meissner (and Robert Ochsenfeld)
- Mendelian inheritance ? Gregor Mendel
- Mercalli intensity scale (Modified Mercalli scale) ? Giuseppe Mercalli
- Metonic cycle ? Meton of Athens
- Meyers synthesis ? Albert I. Meyers
- Mie scattering (a.k.a. Lorenz-Mie scattering) ? Gustav Mie (and Ludvig Lorenz)
- Mih?ilescu's theorem (a.k.a. Catalan's conjecture) ? Preda Mih?ilescu
- Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein effect ? Stanislav Mikheyev, Alexei Smirnov, and Lincoln Wolfenstein
- Miller effect ? John Milton Miller (John M. Miller)
- Miller indices (a.k.a. Miller-Bravais indices) ? William Hallowes Miller (and Auguste Bravais)
- Misznay-Schardin effect ? Col. Misznay and Hubert Schardin
- Mögel?Dellinger effect ? see Dellinger effect, above
- Mohorovi?i? discontinuity (Moho) ? Andrija Mohorovi?i?
- Mohr's circle ? Christian Otto Mohr
- Mohr-Coulomb theory ? Christian Otto Mohr and Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
- Moore machine ? Edward Forrest Moore
- Morgan unit ? Thomas Hunt Morgan
- Morse potential ? Philip M. Morse
- Mössbauer effect ? Rudolf Mössbauer
- Mott cross section, Mott insulator, Mott transition ? Nevill Francis Mott
- Mpemba effect ? Erasto B. Mpemba
- Müllerian mimicry ? Fritz Müller
- Munroe effect ? Charles Edward Munroe
- Murphy's law ? Maj. Edward A. Murphy, Jr.
- Paal-Knorr synthesis ? Carl Paal and Ludwig Knorr
- Pareto chart, distribution, efficiency, index, principle ? Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto
- Parrondo's paradox ? J. M. R. Parrondo
- Paschen curve, line, law ? Friedrich Paschen
- Paschen-Back effect ? Friedrich Paschen and Ernst Back
- Paternò-Büchi reaction - Emanuele Paternò and George Hermann Büchi
- Pasteur effect ? Louis Pasteur
- Pauli exclusion principle ? Wolfgang Pauli
- Peano curve ? Giuseppe Peano
- Pearson-Anson effect ? S. O. Pearson and H. St. G. Anson
- Péclet number ? Jean Claude Eugène Péclet
- Peltier effect ? Jean Charles Athanase Peltier
- Perlin noise ? Ken Perlin
- Perron-Frobenius theorem ? Oskar Perron, and Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
- Petkau effect ? Abram Petkau
- Petri dish ? Julius Richard Petri
- Petri net ? Carl Adam Petri
- Peyer's patches ? Johann Conrad Peyer
- Pfund line/series ? August Herman Pfund
- Phillips curve ? William Phillips (economist)
- Pigou effect ? Arthur Cecil Pigou
- Pisot-Vijayaraghavan number ? Charles Pisot and Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan
- Planck constant, length, mass, time ? Max Planck
- Platonic year ? Plato
- Pockels effect ? Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels
- Pogson ratio ? Norman Robert Pogson
- Poincaré map, section ? Jules-Henri Poincaré
- Poincaré-Bendixson theorem ? Jules-Henri Poincaré and Ivar Otto Bendixson
- Poinsot spiral ? Louis Poinsot
- Polian vesicles ? Giuseppe Saverio Poli
- Potts cluster, Potts model (a.k.a. Ashkin-Teller model) ? Renfrey B. Potts
- Pourbaix diagram ? Marcel Pourbaix
- Poynting effect, vector ? John Henry Poynting
- Poynting-Robertson effect ? John Henry Poynting and Howard Percy Robertson
- Prandtl number ? Ludwig Prandtl
- Primakov effect ? ? Primakov
- Proteus phenomenon ? Proteus (mythological god)
- Prouho's membrane ? Henri Prouho
- Pulfrich effect ? Carl Pulfrich
- Purkinje effect/shift ? Johannes Evangelista Purkinje
- Pygmalion effect (a.k.a. Rosenthal effect, Observer-expectancy effect) ? Pygmalion (and Robert Rosenthal)
- Rabi oscillations ? Isidor Isaac Rabi
- Rademacher distribution, function, series, sum ? Hans Adolph Rademacher
- Rademacher-Kolmogorov theorem ? Hans Adolph Rademacher and Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov
- Rademacher-Menchov theorem ? Hans Adolph Rademacher and ? Menchov
- Raman scattering ? Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
- Ramsauer-Townsend effect (a.k.a. Ramsauer effect, Townsend effect) ? Carl Ramsauer and John Sealy Townsend
- Ramsden circle/disc/eyepoint, eyepiece ? Jesse Ramsden
- Ramsey spectroscopy - Norman F. Ramsey
- Ramsey theory ? Frank Plumpton Ramsey
- Ramsey-DeFinetti theorem ? Frank Plumpton Ramsey and Bruno de Finetti
- Rapoport's rule ? Eduardo H. Rapoport
- Raychaudhuri's equation ? Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri (??? ????? ??????????)
- Raygor Estimate Graph ? Alton L. Raygor
- Rayleigh criterion, distribution, fading, number, quotient, scattering, waves ? Lord Rayleigh
- Rayleigh-Bénard cell/convection ? Lord Rayleigh and Henri Bénard
- Rayleigh-Jeans law ? Lord Rayleigh and Sir James Jeans
- Rees?Sciama effect ? Martin Rees and Dennis Sciama
- Reidemeister moves ? Kurt Reidemeister
- Rescorla-Wagner rule ? Robert A. Rescorla and Allan R. Wagner
- Reynolds number, Reynolds analogy ? Osborne Reynolds
- Ribot's law (of Retrograde Amnesia) ? Théodule Ribot
- Ricardian equivalence ? see Barro-Ricardo equivalence, above
- Richards controller ? Charles L. Richards
- Richardson's constant, equation, law ? Owen Willans Richardson
- Richardson number ? Lewis Fry Richardson
- Richter magnitude scale ? Charles Francis Richter
- Righi-Leduc effect (a.k.a. Leduc-Righi effect) ? Augusto Righi and S. Leduc
- Ringelmann effect ? Max Ringelmann
- Robertson-Walker metric (a.k.a. Friedmann-Robertson-Walker metric) ? see Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker metric, above
- Roche limit ? Édouard Roche
- Roche sphere (a.k.a. Hill sphere) ? Édouard Roche (and George William Hill)
- Rollin film ? Bernard V. Rollin
- Rosenthal effect (a.k.a. Pygmalion effect, Observer-expectancy effect) ? Robert Rosenthal (and Pygmalion)
- Rossi-Forel scale ? Michele Stefano Conte de Rossi and François-Alphonse Forel
- Rössler equation ? Otto Rössler
- Rossmann fold ? Michael Rossmann
- Ruelle operator, zeta function ? David Ruelle
- Ruelle-Perron-Frobenius theorem ? David Ruelle, Oskar Perron, and Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
- Ruhmkorff coil ? Heinrich D. Ruhmkorff
- Runge's phenomenon ? Carle David Tolmé Runge
- Russell's paradox ? Bertrand Russell
- Rutherford experiment (a.k.a. Geiger-Marsden experiment), scattering ? Ernest Rutherford
- Rybczynski theorem ? Tadeusz Rybczynski
- Rydberg constant, formula ? Johannes Rydberg
- Sabatier or Sabattier effect ? Sabat[t]ier, first name unknown
- Sachs-Wolfe effect ? Rainer Kurt Sachs and Arthur Michael Wolfe
- Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale ? Herbert S. Saffir and Robert ("Bob") Simpson
- Sagnac effect ? Georges Sagnac
- Saha ionization equation (a.k.a. Saha-Langmuir equation) ? Megh Nad Saha (?????? ????) (and Irving Langmuir)
- St. Elmo's fire ? Erasmus of Formiae
- Salem number ? Raphaël Salem
- Sapir?Whorf hypothesis ? Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf
- Sasakian manifold, metric ? Shigeo Sasaki
- Say's law ? Jean-Baptiste Say
- Schering Bridge ? Harald Schering
- Schild plot, regression analysis ? Heinz Otto Schild
- Schottky effect ? Walter H. Schottky
- Schröter effect ? Johann Hieronymus Schröter
- Schülen-Wilson effect ? see Wilson effect, below
- Schuler period, tuning ? Maximilian Schuler
- Schumann-Runge bands ? Victor Schumann and Carle David Tolmé Runge
- Schwarzschild effect, metric, radius ? Karl Schwarzschild
- Scott Effect ? Elizabeth L. Scott
- Searl effect ? John R. R. Searl
- Secchi (stellar) class, depth, disk ? Pietro Angelo Secchi
- Seebeck effect ? Thomas Johann Seebeck
- Sertoli cells ? Enrico Sertoli
- Serre duality ? Jean-Pierre Serre
- Seyfert galaxy ? Carl Keenan Seyfert
- Shapiro effect ? Irwin Shapiro
- Shimizu-Morioka equations ? Tatsujiro Shimizu and N. Morioka
- Shubnikov-De Haas effect ? see De Haas-Shubnikov effect, above
- Sieberg tsunami intensity scale ? August H. Sieberg
- Sieberg-Ambraseys tsunami intensity scale ? August H. Sieberg and Nicholas N. Ambraseys
- Simmons-Smith reaction ? Howard Ensign Simmons, Jr.
- Simroth's organs ? Heinrich Rudolf Simroth
- Smale's horseshoe ? Stephen Smale
- Smale-Rössler theorem ? Stephen Smale and Otto Rössler
- Snell's law ? Willebrord van Roijen Snell
- Soloviev tsunami intensity scale ? Sergey L. Soloviev
- Sommerfeld?Kossel displacement law ? Arnold Sommerfeld and Walther Kossel
- Spörer's law, Spörer Minimum ? Gustav Spörer
- Staebler-Wronski effect ? David L. Staebler and Christopher R. Wronski
- Stark effect (a.k.a. Stark-Lo Surdo effect) ? Johannes Stark (and Antonino Lo Surdo)
- Stark ladder (a.k.a. Wannier-Stark ladder, q.v.) ? Johannes Stark and Gregory Hugh Wannier
- Stark-Einstein law ? Johannes Stark and Albert Einstein
- Stebbins-Whitford effect ? Joel Stebbins and Albert Edward Whitford
- Stefan's constant, law (a.k.a. Stefan-Boltzmann constant, law) ? Jo?ef Stefan (and Ludwig Boltzmann)
- Stensen's duct ? Niels Stensen
- Stern-Levison parameter ? S. Alan Stern and Harold F. Levison
- Stevens effect ? J. C. and Stanley Smith Stevens
- Stevens' power law ? Stanley Smith Stevens
- Stewart's organs ? Charles Stewart
- Stewart-Tolman effect ? Thomas Dale Stewart and Richard Chace Tolman
- Stirling number ? James Stirling
- Stokes radius ? George Gabriel Stokes
- Stokes shift ? George Gabriel Stokes
- Stolper-Samuelson theorem ? Paul Samuelson and Wolfgang Stolper
- Strömgren age, photometry, sphere ? Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren
- Strömgren-Crawford photometry ? Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren and David L. Crawford
- Stroop effect ? John Ridley Stroop
- Strouhal number ? Vincenc Strouhal
- Stückelberg action ? Ernst Carl Gerlach Stueckelberg
- Sturgeon's law ? Theodore Sturgeon
- Sturmian trajectories ? Charles François Sturm
- Suess effect ? Hans Eduard Suess
- Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect ? Rashid Sunyaev and Yakov Zel'dovich
- Tait-Bryan angles (a.k.a. Cardan angles, nautical angles) ? Peter Guthrie Tait and George Bryan (?)
- Talbot effect ? William Henry Fox Talbot
- Teller-Ulam design ? Edward Teller and Stanis?aw Ulam
- Tesla effect, oscillation (a.k.a. Vackár oscillation) ? Nikola Tesla (and Jirí Vackár)
- Thévenin's theorem ? Léon Charles Thévenin
- Thirring effect ? see Lense-Thirring effect, above
- Thomas precession ? Llewellyn Thomas
- Thomas-Fermi approximation, model ? Llewellyn Hilleth Thomas and Enrico Fermi
- Thomson cross-section, effect ? William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
- Thorndike's laws (of effect, readiness, and exercise) ? Edward L. Thorndike
- Thorson's rule ? Gunnar Thorson
- Thouless energy ? David J. Thouless
- Tiedemann's bodies ? Friedrich Tiedemann
- Tiffeneau-Demjanov rearrangement - Marc Tiffeneau and Nikolai Demyanov
- Tobin's q ? James Tobin
- Tolman effects ? Richard Chace Tolman
- Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit ? Richard Chace Tolman, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and George Michael Volkoff
- Tonks-Girardeau gas ? Lewi Tonks and Marvin D. Girardeau
- Townsend effect (a.k.a. Ramsauer effect, Ramsauer-Townsend effect), ionization coefficient ? John Sealy Townsend
- Tricomi's equation ? Francesco Giacomo Tricomi
- Troxler's effect/fading ? Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler
- Tsytovich effect ? Vadim N. Tsytovich
- Tsytovich-Razin effect (a.k.a. Tsytovich-Eidman-Razin effect) ? see Razin effect, above
- Tychonoff space ? Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff
- Tyndall effect/scattering ? John Tyndall
- Wadati-Benioff zone (a.k.a. Benioff zone) ? Kiyoo Wadati and Hugo Benioff
- Wahlund effect ? Sten Gösta William Wahlund
- Wallace's line ? Alfred Russel Wallace
- Walras' law ? Leon Walras
- Wannier function, orbital ? Gregory Wannier
- Wannier-Stark ladder (a.k.a. Stark ladder) ? Gregory Wannier and Johannes Stark
- Warburg effect ? Otto Warburg
- Waring's problem (a.k.a. Hilbert?Waring theorem) ? Edward Waring (and David Hilbert)
- Weberian apparatus ? Ernst Heinrich Weber
- Weierstrass-Casorati theorem ? Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass and Felice Casorati
- Weierstrass's elliptic functions, factorization theorem, function, M-test, preparation theorem ? Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass
- Weissenberg effect ? Karl Weissenberg
- Weston cell ? Edward Weston
- Wheatstone bridge ? Sir Charles Wheatstone (improved and popularized it; the inventor was Samuel Hunter Christie)
- Whittaker function, Whittaker integral, Whittaker model ? E. T. Whittaker
- Whittaker?Shannon interpolation formula ? E. T. Whittaker, J. M. Whittaker, Claude Shannon
- Widrow-Hoff rule ? Bernard Widrow and Ted Hoff
- Wiedemann-Franz law ? Gustav Wiedemann and Rudolf Franz
- Wien bridge (Wien's bridge), constant, effect, law ? Wilhelm Wien
- Wiener filter, process ? Norbert Wiener
- Wigmore chart ? John Henry Wigmore
- Wigner energy, Wigner effect ? Eugene Wigner
- Wigner-Seitz cell ? Eugene Wigner and Frederick Seitz
- Willshaw network ? David J. Willshaw
- Wilson cycle ? John Tuzo Wilson
- Wilson effect (a.k.a. Schülen-Wilson effect) ? Alexander Wilson (and ? Schülen)
- Wilson-Bappu effect ? Olin Chaddock Wilson and Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu
- Wollaston prism ? William Hyde Wollaston
- Woodward-Hoffmann rules ? Robert Burns Woodward and Roald Hoffmann
- Woodward effect ? James F. Woodward
- Wolf effect ? Emil Wolf
- Wulf bands ? Oliver R. Wulf
See also
References
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