Scientific laws named after people

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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
Amdahl's law	Computer science	Gene Amdahl
Ampère's law	Physics	André-Marie Ampère
Archie's law	Geology	Gus Archie
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
Boyle's law	Thermodynamics	Robert Boyle
Bradford's law	Computer science	Samuel C. Bradford
Buys-Ballot's law	Meteorology	C.H.D. Buys Ballot
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
De Morgan's law	Logic	Augustus De Morgan
Dermott's Law	Celestial mechanics	Stanley Dermott
Einstein's General Theory of Relativity	Physics	Albert Einstein
Faraday's law of induction Faraday's law of electrolysis	Electromagnetism Chemistry	Michael Faraday
Fick's law of diffusion	Thermodynamics	Adolf Fick
Fitts' law	Ergonomics	Paul Fitts
Fourier's law	Thermodynamics	Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Gauss' law	Physics	Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
Gibbs free energy	Thermodynamics	Willard Gibbs
Gödel's incompleteness theorem	Mathematics	Kurt Gödel
Graham's law	Thermodynamics	Thomas Graham
Henry's law	Thermodynamics	William Henry
Hess's law	Thermodynamics	Germain Henri Hess
Hooke's law	Physics	Robert Hooke
Hubble's law	Cosmology	Edwin Hubble
Joule's law	Physics	James Joule
Kepler's laws of planetary motion	Astrophysics	Johannes Kepler
Kirchhoff's laws	Thermodynamics	Gustav Kirchhoff
Le Chatelier's principle	Chemistry	Henri Louis le Chatelier
Metcalfe's law	Network theory	Robert Metcalfe
Minkowski's theorem	Number theory	Hermann Minkowski
Nash embedding theorem	Topology	John Forbes Nash
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
Occam's Razor	Philosophy of science	William of Ockham
Ohm's law	Electronics	Georg Ohm
Pascal's theorem	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
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
Snell's law	Optics	Willebrord van Roijen Snell
Sommerfeld-Kossel displacement law	Spectroscopy	Arnold Sommerfeld and Walther Kossel
Stefan-Boltzmann law	Thermodynamics	Jožef Stefan and Ludwig Boltzmann
Stokes' law	Fluid mechanics	George Gabriel Stokes
Titius-Bode law	Astrophysics	Johann Daniel Titius and Johann Elert Bode
Wien's law	Physics	Wilhelm Wien
Zipf's law	Linguistics	George Kingsley Zipf

[edit] See also

• Eponym
• Fields of science
• List of eponymous laws - overlaps with this list but includes non-scientific laws such as Murphy's law and Moore's law.
• List of laws in science
• Lists of etymologies
• Scientific constants named after people
• Scientific phenomena named after people