Scientific phenomena named after people
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This is a list of scientific phenomena and concepts named after people (eponymous phenomena). For other lists of eponyms, see eponym.
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[edit] A
- Abney effect, Abney's law of additivity — William de Wiveleslie Abney
- Abrikosov lattice — Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov
- Aharonov-Bohm effect — Yakir Aharonov and David Bohm
- Albert effect — ? Albert
- Alfvén number (a.k.a. Kármán number, magnetic Mach number) — Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén
- Alfvén speed, wave — Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén
- Allais effect — Maurice Allais
- Allee effect — Warder Clyde Allee
- Allinger's force field — Norman Allinger
- Ampère's law — André-Marie Ampère
- Anderson-Higgs mechanism (a.k.a. Higgs mechanism) — Peter Higgs and Philip Warren Anderson
- Anderson-Darling test — Theodore W. Anderson, Jr. and Donald A. Darling
- Andreev reflection — Alexander F. Andreev
- Apgar score — Virginia Apgar
- Arago phenomenon (a.k.a. Rotatory magnetism) — Arago spot — Dominique François Jean Arago
- Archimedean spiral, Archimedes number — Archimedes
- Argand diagram — Jean Robert Argand
- Argunov-Cassegrain telescope — P. P. Argunov and Laurent Cassegrain
- Aristotle's lantern — Aristotle
- Armstrong oscillator — Edwin Armstrong
- Arndt-Schulz principle/law/rule — Rudolf Arndt and Hugo Paul Friedrich Schulz
- Arrhenius number, equation — Svante August Arrhenius
- Ashkin-Teller model (a.k.a. Potts model) — Julius Ashkin and Edward Teller
- Auger effect, Auger electron — Pierre Victor Auger
- Autler-Townes effect (a.k.a. Dynamical Stark splitting) — Stanley H. Autler and Charles H. Townes
- Avogadro's law, number — Count Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro di Quaregna e Cerreto
[edit] B
- 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
- Bárány chair — Robert Bárány
- Barber-Johnson diagram (a.k.a. Barber-Johnson-Yates scattergram) — ?
- 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
- 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
- Bayliss effect — William M. Bayliss
- BCS superconduction theory — John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and Robert Schrieffer
- Beaufort scale (Beaufort wind force scale) — Sir Francis Beaufort
- 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)
- Bejan number — Adrian Bejan
- Bekenstein's Bound — Jakob 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
- Benford's law — Frank Albert Benford, Jr.
- Benioff zone — see Wadati-Benioff zone, below
- Berezinsky-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition (a.k.a. Kosterlitz-Thouless transition) — Veniamin L. Berezinsky, John M. Kosterlitz, and David J. Thouless
- Bergmann's rule — Christian Bergmann
- Bernoulli effect, Bernoulli's equation, Bernoulli's 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
- Bingham number — Eugene C. Bingham
- Biot number — Jean-Baptiste Biot
- Biot-Savart law — Jean-Baptiste Biot and Félix Savart
- Birge-Hopfield bands — see Lyman-Birge-Hopfield bands, below
- Birman-Williams theorem — Joan Sylvia Lyttle Birman and Robert F. Williams
- Black's law (a. k. a. Black's equation) for electromigration — James R. Black (d. 2004) of Motorola
- Blake number — ? Blake
- Blazhko effect — Sergei Blazhko
- Bloch wave — Felix Bloch
- Bodenstein number — probably Max Bodenstein (1871 — 1942)
- 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
- Bormuth index — John R. Bormuth
- Born-Haber cycle — Max Born and Fritz Haber
- Born-Oppenheimer approximation — Max Born and Robert Oppenheimer
- Borrmann effect (a.k.a. Borrmann-Campbell effect) — Gerhard Borrman (and H. N. Campbell)
- Bose-Einstein condensate, effect, statistics — Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein
- Boson — Satyendra Nath Bose
- Boussinesq number — Joseph Boussinesq
- 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
- Brewster's angle, Brewster's 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
- Brownian motion — Robert Brown
- Brownell-Katz number — Lloyd E. Brownell and Donald L. Katz
- 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.
[edit] C
- Cabannes-Daure effect — Jean Cabannes and Pierre Daure
- Callier effect — André Callier
- Callippic cycle — Callippus of Cyzicus
- Calvin cycle (a.k.a. Calvin-Benson cycle) — Melvin Calvin (and Andy Benson)
- 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
- Casimir effect — Hendrik Casimir
- Catalan's conjecture (a.k.a. Miha(ilescu's theorem), Catalan numbers — Eugène Charles Catalan
- Cauchy number (a.k.a. Hooke number) — Augustin-Louis Cauchy
- Cauer filter — Wilhelm Cauer
- Chandler wobble — Seth Carlo Chandler
- Chandrasekhar effect, limit, number — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- 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. C(erenkov-Vavilov radiation) — Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (and Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov)
- Christiansen cavity, effect, filter — Christian Christiansen
- Christofilos effect — Nicholas Christofilos
- Clapp oscillator — James K. Clapp
- Clarke orbit — Arthur C. Clarke
- Clausius number — Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius
- Clayden effect — Arthur W. Clayden
- 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
- 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
- Curie point — Pierre Curie
- Curry's paradox — Haskell Curry
- Curtin-Hammett principle — David Yarrow Curtin and Louis Plack Hammett
- Cuvierian tubules, Cuvier's organ — Georges Cuvier
[edit] D
- Dale-Chall index — Edgar Dale and Jeanne S. Chall
- Dalton's law (of partial pressures) — John Dalton
- Darlington pair — Sidney Darlington
- Darwin point — Charles Darwin
- 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, model — 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
- Dellinger effect (a.k.a. Mögel-Dellinger effect) — John Howard Dellinger (and Hans Mögel)
- Destriau effect — Georges Destriau
- deVries effect — Hessel deVries
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- Dulong-Petit law — Pierre Louis Dulong and Alexis Thérèse Petit
- Dunitz angle — Jack David Dunitz
- Durfee polynomial, square — William H. Durfee
[edit] E
- Eagle effect — Harry Eagle
- Early effect — James M. Early
- Eberhard effect — Gustav Eberhard
- Eddington limit — Arthur Eddington
- Edgeworth-Bowley box — Francis Ysidro Edgeworth and Arthur Lyon Bowley
- Edison effect — Thomas Edison
- Edward-Lemieux effect (a.k.a. Anomeric effect) — John Thomas Edward and Raymond U. Lemieux
- Ehrenfest paradox — Paul Ehrenfest
- Ehrenfest-Tolman effect — Paul Ehrenfest(?) and Richard Chace Tolman
- Eimer's organ — Gustav Heinrich Theodor Eimer
- Einstein shift — Albert Einstein
- Einstein-de Haas effect — Albert Einstein and Wander Johannes de Haas
- Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox (a.k.a. EPR paradox, Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm paradox) — Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, Nathan Rosen (and David Bohm)
- Ekman layer — Walfrid Ekman
- Elliott-Halberstam conjecture — Peter T. D. A. Elliott and Heini Halberstam
- Elman network — Jeff Elman
- Engel curve — Ernst Engel
- Epimenides paradox — Epimenides of Knossos
- Eshelby's inclusion — John D. Eshelby
- Ettinghausen effect — Albert von Ettinghausen
- List of topics named after Leonhard Euler — Leonhard Euler
- Evershed effect — John Evershed
[edit] F
- Faà di Bruno's formula — Francesco Faà di Bruno
- Faraday constant, Faraday effect, Faraday's law of induction, Faraday's law of electrolysis — Michael Faraday
- Farr-Jenkins-Paterson index — James N. Farr, James J. Jenkins, and Donald G. Paterson
- Fermat's principle, — Pierre de Fermat
- Fermi energy, Fermi paradox, Fermi surface, Fermion — Enrico Fermi
- Fermi-Dirac statistics — Enrico Fermi and Paul Dirac
- Fermion — Enrico Fermi
- Ferrers diagram (a.k.a. Young diagram, Ferrers graph) — Norman Macleod Ferrers
- Feynman diagram — Richard Feynman
- Feynman-Kac model — Richard Feynman and Mark Kac
- 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
- Flynn effect — James R. Flynn
- Fog index — see Gunning Fog index, below
- Forbush effect — Scott E. 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
- 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
- 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
[edit] G
- Gantmakher effect — Vsevolod Feliksovich Gantmakher
- 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 M. Nuttall
- Geissler tube — Heinrich Geissler
- Gibbs entropy, Gibbs free energy, Gibbs 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 Joseph John Thomson
- Giffen good — Sir Robert Giffen
- Girdler process (a.k.a. Geib-Spevack (GS) process) — see Geib-Spevack process, above
- Goldbach's conjecture — Christian Goldbach
- Goldstone boson (a.k.a. Nambu-Goldstone boson) — see Nambu-Goldstone boson, below
- Goodhart's law — Charles Goodhart
- Goos-Hänchen effect/shift — F. Goos and H. Lindberg-Hänchen
- 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
- 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 effect, Gunn diode — 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
[edit] H
- 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
- 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
- Hayflick limit — Leonard Hayflick
- Hawking radiation (a.k.a. Bekenstein-Hawking radiation) — Stephen Hawking (and Jacob Bekenstein)
- Hebbian learning — Donald Olding Hebb
- Heinlein's razor — see Heinlein'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
- 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
- Hoffmann's organ — C. K. Hoffmann
- Hofstadter's butterfly, law — Douglas Richard Hofstadter
- Holetschek effect — Johann Holetschek
- Hopfield bands — John J. Hopfield
- Hopfield network — John J. Hopfield
- 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
- Hunt effect — Robert W. G. Hunt
- Hutchison effect — John Hutchison
- Huygens' principle — Christiaan Huygens
[edit] I
- Imamura-Iida tsunami intensity scale — Fumihiko Imamura and Kumizi Iida
- Imamura-Soloviev tsunami intensity scale — Fumihiko Imamura and Sergey L. Soloviev
- Imbert-Fedorov effect/shift (a.k.a. Imbert-Pavageau-Fedorov effect) — C. Imbert, F. I. Fedorov (and J. Pavageau)
- Ishikawa diagram — Kaoru Ishikawa
- Ising model (a.k.a. Lenz-Ising model) — Ernst Ising (and Wilhelm Lenz)
[edit] J
- Jackson diagram — Michael A. Jackson
- Jahn-Teller effect — Hans Jahn and Edward Teller
- Jarque-Bera test — Carlos M. Jarque and Anil K. Bera
- Jeffrey's rule — Richard Jeffrey
- Johnson–Nyquist noise — John B. Johnson and Harry Nyquist
- Johnston diagram — Russell Johnston
- Jonnesco's fossa — Thomas Jonnesco
- Jordan's rule/law — David Starr Jordan
- Josephson constant, effect, junction — Brian David Josephson
- Jost's laws (of rehearsal and forgetting) — Adolf Jost
- Joule's law (a.k.a. Joule-Lenz law) — James Prescott Joule (and Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz)
- Joule-Thomson effect (a.k.a. Joule-Kelvin effect) — James Prescott Joule and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
[edit] K
- Kac model — Mark Kac
- 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
- Keeling curve — Charles David Keeling
- Kelvin effect — William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
- Kennelly-Heaviside layer — Arthur Edwin Kennelly and Oliver Heaviside
- 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, effect, number — Martin Hans Christian Knudsen
- Kochen-Specker paradox — Simon Kochen and Ernst Specker
- Kohn effect — Walter Kohn
- Kohn-Sham equations — Walter Kohn and Lu Jeu Sham
- Kohonen network — Teuvo Kohonen
- Kondo effect — Jun Kondo
- 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 (a.k.a. Berezinsky-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 — Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan
- Kronecker delta — Leopold Kronecker
- Kuiper Belt — Gerard Kuiper
- Kuramoto model — Yoshiki Kuramoto
[edit] L
- Lagrangian mechanics, Lagrange points — Joseph Louis Lagrange
- Laing-Garrington effect — Robert Laing and Simon Garrington
- Lamb shift (a.k.a. Lamb-Retheford shift) — Willis Lamb (and Robert Retheford)
- Lambert's emission law (a.k.a. Lambert's cosine law) — Johann Heinrich Lambert
- Landau damping, pole — Lev Davidovich Landau
- Landau-Pomeranchuk effect — see Pomeranchuk effect, below
- Landau-Zener transition — Lev Davidovich Landau and Clarence Zener
- Landé g-factor — Alfred Landé
- Lange's nerve — W. Lange
- Langmuir-Blodgett film — Irving Langmuir and Katherine Burr 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 Swann Leavitt
- Le Chatelier's principle — Henri Louis Le Chatelier
- Leduc-Righi effect (a.k.a. Righi-Leduc effect) — S. Leduc and Augusto Righi
- 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
- Lenz-Ising model — see Ising model, above
- 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
- Lohmann-Ruchti effect — Martin Lohmann and Hans Ruchti
- Lomonosov effect — Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov
- 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
- Lorenzini's ampullae — Stefano Lorenzini
- Loschmidt's paradox — Johann Loschmidt
- Lossev effect — O. V. Lossev
- Lotka-Volterra equation — Alfred J. Lotka and Vito Volterra
- Love waves — Augustus Edward Hough Love
- Lucas critique — Robert Lucas
- Ludwig's nerve — Hubert Ludwig
- Lyapunov's central limit theorem, condition, Lyapunov equation, exponent, fractal, function, stability, test, time, tube — Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov
- Lyman line, series — Theodore Lyman
- Lyman-Birge-Hopfield bands (a.k.a. Birge-Hopfield bands) — Theodore Lyman, Raymond T. Birge, and John J. Hopfield
[edit] M
- Mach band/effect, number, principle — Ernst Mach
- Mach-Zehnder interferometer — Ernst Mach and Ludwig Zehnder
- Madelung constant, Madelung energy — Erwin Madelung
- Maggi-Righi-Leduc effect — Gian Antonio Maggi, Augusto Righi and S. Leduc
- Magnus effect — Heinrich Gustav Magnus
- 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
- Marilyn Monroe effect — Marilyn Monroe
- 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-Wagner effect (a.k.a. Maxwell effect (electricity)) — James Clark Maxwell and K. W. Wagner(?)
- Maxwell-Wien bridge — James Clark Maxwell(?) and Wilhelm Wien
- 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
- Meissner effect (a.k.a. Meissner-Ochsenfeld effect) — Walter Meissner (and Robert Ochsenfeld)
- Mercalli intensity scale (Modified Mercalli scale) — Giuseppe Mercalli
- Metonic cycle — Meton of Athens
- Mie scattering (a.k.a. Lorenz-Mie scattering) — Gustav Mie (and Ludvig Lorenz)
- Miha(ilescu's theorem (a.k.a. Catalan's conjecture) — Preda Miha(ilescu
- Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein effect — Stanislav Mikheyev, Alexei Smirnov, and Lincoln Wolfenstein
- Miller effect — John "Doe" Miller
- Miller indices (a.k.a. Miller-Bravais indices) — William Hallowes Miller (and Auguste Bravais)
- Misznay-Schardin effect — Col. Misznay[1] and Hubert Schardin
- Mögel-Dellinger effect — see Dellinger effect, above
- Mohorovic(ic' discontinuity (Moho) — Andrija Mohorovic(ic'
- Mohr's circle — Christian Otto Mohr
- Mohr-Coulomb theory — Christian Otto Mohr and Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
- Morgan unit — Thomas Hunt Morgan
- Morse potential — Philip M. Morse
- Mössbauer effect — Rudolf Mössbauer
- Mott cross-section, insulator, transition — Nevill Francis Mott
- Mpemba effect — Erasto B. Mpemba
- Mullerian mimicry — Fritz Müller
- Munroe effect — Charles Edward Munroe
- Murphy's law — Maj. Edward A. Murphy, Jr.
- Murty interferometer — Murty V. Mantravadi
[edit] N
- Nambu-Goldstone boson (a.k.a. Goldstone boson) — Yoichiro Nambu and Jeffrey Goldstone
- Nash equilibrium — John Forbes Nash
- Nassi-Shneiderman diagram — Isaac Nassi and Ben Shneiderman
- Necker cube — Louis Albert Necker
- Néel temperature — Louis Néel
- Nernst equation — Walther Hermann Nernst
- Nernst-Ettingshausen effect — Walther Hermann Nernst and Albert von Ettingshausen
- Newcomb's paradox — William Newcomb
- Newton's rings, Newtonian constant, mechanics — Isaac Newton
- Nichols-Tolman effect — Nichols and Richard Chace Tolman
- Nordmann-Tikhoff effect — Charles Nordmann and Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov
- Nordtvedt effect — Kenneth L. Nordtvedt
[edit] O
- O'Connell effect — Daniel Joseph Kelly O'Connell
- Olbers' paradox — Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers
- Ohm's law — Georg Ohm
- Okun's law — Arthur Okun
- Omori's law — Fusakichi Omori
- Onnes effect — Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
- Oort cloud (a.k.a. Öpik-Oort Cloud) — Jan Hendrik Oort (and Ernst Julius Öpik)
- Ostwald's dilution law, Ostwald process — Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald
- Overhauser effect — Albert Overhauser
- Ovshinsky effect — Stanford R. Ovshinsky
[edit] P
- Pareto chart, distribution, efficiency, index, principle — Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto
- Paschen curve, line, law — Friedrich Paschen
- Paschen-Back effect — Friedrich Paschen and Ernst Back
- 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
- Perron-Frobenius theorem — Oskar Perron, and Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
- Petkau effect — Abram Petkau
- Petri net — Carl Adam Petri
- Peyer's patches — Hans Conrad Peyer
- Pfund line, series — August Herman Pfund
- Phillips curve — William Phillips (economist)
- Pigou effect — Arthur Cecil Pigou
- Pioneer effect — Pioneer 10 and 11 space probes
- 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
- Pomeranchuk effect (a.k.a. Landau-Pomeranchuk effect) — Isaak Pomeranchuk (and Lev Davidovich Landau)
- Potts cluster, 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
[edit] R
- 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 theory — Frank Plumpton Ramsey
- Ramsey-DeFinetti theorem — Frank Plumpton Ramsey and Bruno de Finetti
- Rapoport's rule — Eduardo H. Rapoport
- 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
- Razin effect (a.k.a. Tsytovich-Razin effect, Tsytovich-Eidman-Razin effect) — V. A. Razin (and Vadim N. Tsytovich, V. Ya. Eidman)
- Reichensperger's organ — A. Reichensperger
- Reidemeister moves — Kurt Reidemeister
- Rescorla-Wagner rule — Robert A. Rescorla and Allan R. Wagner
- Reynolds number — Osborne Reynolds
- Ribot's law (of Retrograde Amnesia) — Théodule Ribot
- Ricardian equivalence — see Barro-Ricardo equivalence, above
- 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
- Rikitake attractors — Tsuneji Rikitake
- 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) — Robert Rosenthal
- Rossi-Forel scale — Michele Stefano Conte de Rossi and François-Alphonse Forel
- Rossiter effect — Richard Alfred Rossiter
- 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
[edit] S
- 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 — Meghnad Saha
- St. Elmo's fire — Erasmus of Formiae
- Salem number — Raphaël Salem
- Say's law — Jean-Baptiste Say
- Schottky effect — Walter H. Schottky
- Schröter effect — Johann Hieronymus Schröter
- Schülen-Wilson effect — see Wilson effect, below
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 — John Quincy Stewart(?) and Richard Chace Tolman
- Stirling number — James Stirling
- 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
[edit] T
- 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 Stanisław Ulam
- Tesla coil — Nikola Tesla
- Tesla oscillator (a.k.a. Vac(kár( oscillator) — Nikola Tesla (and Jir(í Vac(kár()
- 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
- Tobin's q — James Tobin
- Tolman effects — Richard Chace Tolman
- Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit — Richard Chace Tolman, Julius 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
[edit] U
[edit] V
- Vac(kár( oscillator (a.k.a. Tesla oscillator) — Jir(í Vac(kár( (and Nikola Tesla)
- Van Allen radiation belt — James Van Allen
- Van de Graaff generator — Dr. Robert Jemison Van de Graaff
- Van der Pol equation, oscillator — Balthasar van der Pol
- Van der Waals force — Johannes Diderik van der Waals
- Van Hove singularity — Léon Van Hove
- Van Stokum cylinder — W. J. van Stokum
- Vavilovian mimicry — Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov
- Veblen effect — Thorstein Veblen
- Veitch diagram — see Karnaugh map, above
- Venturi effect — Giovanni Battista Venturi
- Venn diagram — John Venn
- Voigt effect, notation, profile — Woldemar Voigt
- Von Klitzing constant — Klaus von Klitzing
- Von Neumann ordinal, von Neumann architecture — John von Neumann
- Von Restorff effect — Hedwig von Restorff
[edit] W
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- Woodward effect — James F. Woodward
- Wolf effect — Emil Wolf
- Wulf bands — Oliver R. Wulf
[edit] Y
- Yarkovsky effect — Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky
- YORP effect — Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky, John A. O'Keefe, V. V. Radzievskii, and Stephen J. Paddack
- Young diagram (a.k.a. Ferrers diagram), Young tableau — Alfred Young
- Young's modulus — Thomas Young
[edit] Z
- Zeeman effect — Pieter Zeeman
- Zener effect — Clarence Melvin Zener
- Zeno effect — Zeno of Elea
- Zipf law — George K. Zipf
